adjective
- Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
- of or relating to conflicting or inconsistent elements; characterized by unusual disparity: It wavers from comedy to thriller to docudrama—a totally schizophrenic plot!
noun Psychiatry.
- a person with schizophrenia: Schizophrenics are often unable to focus on certain objects.
adjective
- exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia
- informal, offensive experiencing or maintaining contradictory attitudes, emotions, etc
noun
- a schizophrenic person
adj.1912; see schizophrenia + -ic. Also from 1912 as a noun, “schizophrenic person.” Transferred adjectival sense of “contradictory, inconsistent” is by 1955. adj.
- Of, relating to, or affected by schizophrenia.
n.
- One who is affected with schizophrenia.