Preposition: about

• thing: You start getting quite paranoid about the whole thing.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: Increasingly paranoid, Stalin himself became a victim of the fear he had induced in his subjects.

• slightly: He got on the phone and started coming out with very agitated, slightly paranoid things.

• totally: They seem totally paranoid about making conversation with someone who isn't marked by a tattoo or piercing.

• somewhat: I had lost all self confidence and had become somewhat paranoid.

• completely: For instance, in the UK we have become completely paranoid about the threat to children from strangers.

• too: I think we all get too paranoid about such things anyway.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• get: She always gets a bit paranoid about the traffic on the highway.

• make: This is likely to make the party even more paranoid about being marginalized.

Modifies a noun

• delusion: The idea that Wilson was a communist mole is, even by today's paranoid delusions, a farcical belief.

• android: I voiced the character of Marvin the paranoid android.

• schizophrenia: His mother, Maggie believes his paranoid schizophrenia was triggered by cannabis use.

• ideation: The after-effects of crack use may include fatigue, depression, paranoid ideation and depersonalisation as people ' come down ' from the high.

• psychosis: They may end up in a state of mind similar to paranoid psychosis, believing that others are plotting against them.

• fantasy: They either ignore them or attempt to preserve the myth by devising ingenious, paranoid fantasies.

Used with adjective complement

• become: I've just become paranoid about my health, I guess.

• feel: The secure have felt paranoid; the insecure have eased up.

• get: You start getting quite paranoid about the whole thing.

• seem: They seem totally paranoid about making conversation with someone who isn't marked by a tattoo or piercing.

• sound: SCULLY: Now, Mulder, you're sounding paranoid.