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单词 psychopathic
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Definition of psychopathic in English:

psychopathic

adjective ˌsʌɪkəˈpaθɪkˌsaɪkəˈpæθɪk
  • 1Suffering from or constituting a chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behaviour.

    a psychopathic disorder
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In addition to having many psychopathic features, perpetrators of unlawful confinement shared several other characteristics.
    • In contrast, the present study found no indications of response reversal impairment in children with psychopathic tendencies.
    • There has been some new interest in the cinematic presentation of the psychopathic killer.
    • Dubbing them "psychopathic" is unlikely to help victims.
    • In children without psychopathic traits, being anti-social was chiefly the result of environmental factors.
    • He also has a combination of other psychopathic disorders which meant he had no control over his actions during the family massacre.
    • Buscemi plays a psychopathic serial killer in the Hannibal Lechter mold.
    • Psychiatrists reading this will have already made the diagnosis - psychopathic personality disorder.
    • Eysenck was the earliest theorist to suggest that delinquent or psychopathic individuals have difficulty inhibiting previously rewarded behaviour.
    • One kind of personality disorder is the psychopathic personality disorder.
    • Zooming right along, we examine the minds of psychopathic killers.
    • The tolas converted Lord Rama into a psychopathic, bloodthirsty god.
    • The genre includes vampires, zombies, werewolves and psychopathic killers.
    • On the face of it, the recruitment of teams of psychopathic rapists seems to be available in all cultures.
    • The psychopathic individuals were significantly impaired in response reversal on this task.
    • Such a person would not be suffering from a psychopathic disorder within the meaning of the Act.
    • The psyche: develop a greater insight into predatory and psychopathic patterns of behaviour.
    • However, there are no indications that the social response reversal system is impaired in psychopathic individuals.
    • A bevy of Welsh shrinks have modified an existing psychological test to identify people with psychopathic tendencies.
    • People like me, frankly, who believe that a good chunk of psychopathic behavior is an inherited risk factor.
    Synonyms
    severely mentally ill, mentally ill, insane, mad, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, not together, crazed, maniac, maniacal, lunatic, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare
    Latin non compos mentis
    British sectionable
    informal crazy, mental, off one's head, out of one's head, off one's nut, nuts, nutty, nutty as a fruitcake, off one's rocker, not (quite) right in the head, round the bend, stark staring/raving mad, raving mad, bats, batty, bonkers, cuckoo, loopy, loony, bananas, loco, dippy, screwy, with a screw loose, schizoid, touched, gaga, up the pole, not all there, not right upstairs, away with the fairies, foaming at the mouth
    British informal barmy, crackers, barking, barking mad, round the twist, off one's trolley, daft, as daft as a brush, not the full shilling
    North American informal buggy, off the wall, nutsy, nutso, out of one's tree, meshuga, squirrelly, wacko
    Canadian &amp Australian/New Zealand informal bushed
    New Zealand informal porangi
    technical psychotic, sociopathic, psychopathological
    1. 1.1informal Abnormal and obsessive; manic.
      an obsessive attention to detail that looked almost psychopathic
      Example sentencesExamples
      • All of this sounds wretched, but not psychopathic.
      • I agree with the viewpoint that current American thinking has become psychopathic.
      • And the key to reversing the control of this psychopathic institution is to understand the nature of the beast.
      • Our society is dynamic and affluent, so maybe it makes sense to allow ' psychopathic ' corporations to do what must be done to create wealth, no matter how ruthlessly.
      • The type of commandos hired for these jobs are psychopathic killers for hire who would have no qualms against committing any act of cruelty.
      • The vast majority of Muslims in the world do not support this psychopathic interpretation of Islam.
      • Ignorant, crude, even psychopathic, Kelly's columns appealed to the worst elements in American society.
      • I tell this story in the context of this month's cover package on psychopathic bosses and the organizational havoc they wreak.
      • Their skits deal with diverse topics ranging from a parody of NPR to psychopathic hitchhikers who catch rides with psychopathic drivers.
      • The ruling class has deliberately cultivated inside its military a psychopathic element, ready to carry out mass murder against any population targeted for subjugation.
      • You said it depends on the corporation, so tell me what difference the corporate culture makes to fostering psychopathic behaviour?
      • Their defiant ignorance of the national welfare borders sometimes upon the psychopathic.
      • Once again, "psychopathic" is the only reasonable way of describing a lie that can so easily be found out.

Derivatives

  • psychopathically

  • adverbˌsʌɪkəˈpaθɪk(ə)li
    • Fifteen-year-old Kevin ‘is so psychopathically unloving, almost from the moment he is born, that his only concerns when older are how efficiently and sadistically he can slaughter his victims,’ The Guardian explained.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And when corporations behave psychopathically, it's the fault of no human, not even the fat cats in charge.
      • Their murder acts on them like a religious conversion (to which, indeed, it is sometimes a prelude); and while some killers remain psychopathically indifferent to their crimes, they are relatively few.
      • We heard about his psychopathically abusive father, his cold and indifferent mother.
      • Davis made enormous sums of money during his career millions - but was constantly fighting off debt as he spent wildly, almost psychopathically.

Rhymes

homeopathic, polymathic, telepathic
 
 

Definition of psychopathic in US English:

psychopathic

adjectiveˌsīkəˈpaTHikˌsaɪkəˈpæθɪk
  • 1Suffering from or constituting a chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior.

    a psychopathic disorder
    Example sentencesExamples
    • People like me, frankly, who believe that a good chunk of psychopathic behavior is an inherited risk factor.
    • On the face of it, the recruitment of teams of psychopathic rapists seems to be available in all cultures.
    • In contrast, the present study found no indications of response reversal impairment in children with psychopathic tendencies.
    • A bevy of Welsh shrinks have modified an existing psychological test to identify people with psychopathic tendencies.
    • One kind of personality disorder is the psychopathic personality disorder.
    • There has been some new interest in the cinematic presentation of the psychopathic killer.
    • The tolas converted Lord Rama into a psychopathic, bloodthirsty god.
    • The psychopathic individuals were significantly impaired in response reversal on this task.
    • Zooming right along, we examine the minds of psychopathic killers.
    • Psychiatrists reading this will have already made the diagnosis - psychopathic personality disorder.
    • In addition to having many psychopathic features, perpetrators of unlawful confinement shared several other characteristics.
    • He also has a combination of other psychopathic disorders which meant he had no control over his actions during the family massacre.
    • Eysenck was the earliest theorist to suggest that delinquent or psychopathic individuals have difficulty inhibiting previously rewarded behaviour.
    • The genre includes vampires, zombies, werewolves and psychopathic killers.
    • However, there are no indications that the social response reversal system is impaired in psychopathic individuals.
    • In children without psychopathic traits, being anti-social was chiefly the result of environmental factors.
    • Such a person would not be suffering from a psychopathic disorder within the meaning of the Act.
    • Dubbing them "psychopathic" is unlikely to help victims.
    • Buscemi plays a psychopathic serial killer in the Hannibal Lechter mold.
    • The psyche: develop a greater insight into predatory and psychopathic patterns of behaviour.
    Synonyms
    severely mentally ill, mentally ill, insane, mad, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, not together, crazed, maniac, maniacal, lunatic, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare
    1. 1.1informal Abnormal and obsessive; manic.
      an obsessive attention to detail that looked almost psychopathic
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I agree with the viewpoint that current American thinking has become psychopathic.
      • Their defiant ignorance of the national welfare borders sometimes upon the psychopathic.
      • I tell this story in the context of this month's cover package on psychopathic bosses and the organizational havoc they wreak.
      • Our society is dynamic and affluent, so maybe it makes sense to allow ' psychopathic ' corporations to do what must be done to create wealth, no matter how ruthlessly.
      • Their skits deal with diverse topics ranging from a parody of NPR to psychopathic hitchhikers who catch rides with psychopathic drivers.
      • Ignorant, crude, even psychopathic, Kelly's columns appealed to the worst elements in American society.
      • And the key to reversing the control of this psychopathic institution is to understand the nature of the beast.
      • Once again, "psychopathic" is the only reasonable way of describing a lie that can so easily be found out.
      • All of this sounds wretched, but not psychopathic.
      • The vast majority of Muslims in the world do not support this psychopathic interpretation of Islam.
      • The type of commandos hired for these jobs are psychopathic killers for hire who would have no qualms against committing any act of cruelty.
      • The ruling class has deliberately cultivated inside its military a psychopathic element, ready to carry out mass murder against any population targeted for subjugation.
      • You said it depends on the corporation, so tell me what difference the corporate culture makes to fostering psychopathic behaviour?
 
 
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