neurotic
English
/njʊəˈɹɒtɪk/
adj
Definitions
- Affected with a neurosis.
- (informal) Overly anxious.
- (medicine) Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (nerve, sinew, tendon, cord, string, a sinew).
Origin
Ancient Greek
νεῦρον
Gloss
nerve, sinew, tendon, cord, string, a sinew
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- angioneurotic English
- antineurotic English
- aponeurotically English
- cardioneurotic English
- neural English
- neuron English
- neurotically English
- neuroticism English
- neuroticization English
- neuroticize English
- neurula English
- nonneurotic English
- psychoneurotic English
- psychoneurotically English
- trophoneurotic English
- unneurotic English
- nervus Latin
- neuralgia Latin
- neuron Latin
- angionévrotique French
- neurone French
- névrose French
- névrotique French
- névrotiquement French
- νευροειδής Ancient Greek
- νεύρινος Ancient Greek
- νεῦρον Ancient Greek
- πολύνευρον Ancient Greek
- *snḗh₁wr̥ Proto-Indo-European
- nerve Norwegian Bokmål
- nevron Norwegian Bokmål
- nerve Norwegian Nynorsk
- nevron Norwegian Nynorsk
- neuron Czech