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psychopath Definition

psycho·path (kō pat̸h′, -kə-)

noun

a person suffering from a mental disorder; specif., psychopathic personality

Etymology: back-form. < psychopathy

psychopath Synonyms

psychopath

n.

psychopathic personality, sociopath, lunatic, mental case, bedlamite*, maniac; see also fool 1, madman.

Types of psychopathic disorders include: psychotic, paranoid, schizoid, schizophrenic, manic-depressive, hysterical, cyclothymic, compulsive, obsessive-compulsive, addictive, passive-aggressive.

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.