Psychotic (Noun)
Meaning
A person afflicted with psychosis.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The man was a psychotic, and his wild eyes made everyone on the bus uneasy.
- She had to quit her job to care for her psychotic sister who had stopped taking her medication.
- After years of struggling with mental illness, he was finally diagnosed as a psychotic and received proper treatment.
- His erratic behavior and paranoia made it clear that he was a psychotic, and he was eventually institutionalized.
- The neighbors reported hearing strange noises coming from the house of the local eccentric, who was known to be a psychotic.