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schizophrenic Definition

schizo·phrenic (--fren′ik, --frē′nik)

adjective

of, having, or characterized by schizophrenia

noun

a person having schizophrenia

schizophrenic Related Forms
schiz′o·phren′i·cally adverb
schizophrenic Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • somewhat: Judging from this extended first episode Steel River Blues seems somewhat schizophrenic in nature.
  • almost: They are almost schizophrenic in their devotion to Nick Drake or whoever.
  • not: However, Sara is not schizophrenic or likely to do herself or other people harm.
  • slightly: The UK TUC is developing a slightly schizophrenic approach to new ways of working.
  • rather: It seems to me to be a rather schizophrenic album release.
  • so: The nature of your existence is so schizophrenic because you are being driven from one place to the next all the time.

Adjective modifier

  • paranoid: For instance, paranoid schizophrenics who believe television can influence their thoughts may not be good candidates for services provided through video-conferencing.
  • spiritual: When spiritual schizophrenics are in church... , they use religious words about God and the Holy Spirit and prayer and faith.

Modifies a noun

  • patient: On average, there are ten schizophrenic patients on the list of an average GP.
  • disorder: Role of the thalamus in language: Is it related to schizophrenic thought disorder?
  • episode: Most people need to take their drugs on a long term basis to lessen the risk of onset of another schizophrenic episode.
  • symptom: Some drugs must be administered in large doses to control schizophrenic symptoms.
  • illness: An account of one who has developed a schizophrenic illness.
  • nature: But it could also be used to refer to the schizophrenic nature of the film itself.

Used with adjective complement

  • diagnose: Later, accessing his case notes, this ' diagnosed schizophrenic ' discovered that his honest denial had simply been disregarded.
  • become: Some people who already suffer from mental illness can become schizophrenic.
  • feel: It's recorded a day apart from the other tracks, someone said to me it feels almost schizophrenic.
  • label: It is now known that in some other parts of the brain in those labeled schizophrenic there is in fact rather little dopamine activity.
  • seem: Judging from this extended first episode Steel River Blues seems somewhat schizophrenic in nature.
schizophrenic Quotes

L'expe¤  rience†d'une femme e¤  crivain est comple'  tement schizophre¤  nique. Il faut toujours faire coupure entre les deux: d'une part, employer un langage qui n'est pas le no" t re†et la lutte qu'on me'  ne sur un autre plan, qui tend 'a casser tout  c° a, a'   essayer de faire a'   travers et dans le langage autre chose. The experience†of the woman writer is completely schizophrenic.One is always torn between two approaches: on the one hand, to use a language that is not ours†and on the other, the battle one fights to break all this up, in order to do something else through and in language.

—Wittig, Monique