SCHIZOPHRENIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does schizophrenic mean? 

• SCHIZOPHRENIC (noun)
  The noun SCHIZOPHRENIC has 1 sense:

1. someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia

  Familiarity information: SCHIZOPHRENIC used as a noun is very rare.

• SCHIZOPHRENIC (adjective)
  The adjective SCHIZOPHRENIC has 2 senses:

1. suffering from some form of schizophrenia

2. of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia

  Familiarity information: SCHIZOPHRENIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHIZOPHRENIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("schizophrenic" is a kind of...):

psycho; psychotic; psychotic person (a person afflicted with psychosis)

Derivation:

schizophrenic (suffering from some form of schizophrenia)

• SCHIZOPHRENIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suffering from some form of schizophrenia

Context example:

schizophrenic patients

Similar:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)

Derivation:

schizophrenia (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)

schizophrenic (someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

schizoid; schizophrenic

Pertainym:

schizophrenia (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)

Derivation:

schizophrenia (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)

 Context examples 

It relieves schizophrenic symptoms (hallucinations, delusions, dementia).

(Clozapine, NCI Thesaurus)

Antipsychotic Agents relieve and control the symptoms of schizophrenic illness (hallucinations, delusions, dementia).

(Antipsychotic agent, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride salt form of molindone, a dihydroindolone compound with antipsychotic and anti-schizophrenic properties not structurally related to other major tranquilizers.

(Molindone Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Synthetic agents containing the phenyl-1-butanone group, most Butyrophenones are neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drugs, such as haloperidol, droperidol, or azaperone, that control schizophrenic symptoms (hallucinations, delusions, dementia).

(Butyrophenone, NCI Thesaurus)