psychopath Definition
psycho·path (sī′kō pat̸h′, -kə-)
noun
a person suffering from a mental disorder; specif., psychopathic personality
Etymology: back-form. < psychopathy
psychopath Synonyms
psychopath
n.
psychopath Usage Examples
Converse of object
- play: This did seem, however, to typecast him into playing psychopaths.
- know: Similar studies carried out on known psychopaths show that they appear to lack the normal range of human emotion.
- spot: Helen Reed was drawn to the title of a lecture by Dr. Robert Hare, who created a checklist for spotting the psychopath.
- catch: Then, legendary stripper Tempest Storm offers herself as bait to catch a psychopath that is terrorizing a health club.
- wield: It's pitchfork wielding psychopath who's HOME FOR THE HOLIDAY!
- rage: Care is also taken to show that, maybe, not all the German soldiers were raging psychopaths after all.
Adjective modifier
- violent: In one large glass case I have installed a violent psychopath who I met previously in a nasty pub.
- dangerous: I used to think that sharing a planet with the Washington Establishment was like sitting in a room with a dangerous psychopath.
- racist: If only an Asian boy had not been locked up with a racist psychopath.
- vicious: She must trust him to stop the killer ' Synopsis: A vicious psychopath is murdering women throughout the midwest.
- aggressive: How many of these are recorded aggressive psychopaths in the U.K.
- sexual: He was diagnosed as a grossly perverted sexual psychopath and that this condition had substantially impaired his mental responsibility.
Modifies a noun
hiding: Soon the truth becomes unavoidable - there is a psychopath hiding in their house.
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