All 6 Uses of
neurotic
in
Main Street
- The grocer, his clerk, and neurotic Mrs. Dave Dyer had been giggling about something.†
Chpt 9 *
- It ended, a quarter of an hour later, in his calling her a "neurotic" before he turned away and pretended to sleep.†
Chpt 24
- His calls mine 'neurotic'; mine calls his 'stupid.'†
Chpt 24
- Maud Dyer was neurotic, religiocentric, faded; her emotions were moist, and her figure was unsystematic—splendid thighs and arms, with thick ankles, and a body that was bulgy in the wrong places.†
Chpt 25
- Why, Good Lord, Maud, I could talk about neuroses and psychoses and inhibitions and repressions and complexes just as well as any damn specialist, if I got paid for it, if I was in the city and had the nerve to charge the fees that those fellows do.†
Chpt 25
- Neurotic impossibilist!†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(neurotic) mildly mentally disturbed -- usually worrying too much about something; or someone with such symptomseditor's notes: More formally, a neurotic might be described as someone with a mild personality disorder -- a neurosis not attributable to any known neurological or organic problem.