All 6 Uses of
paranoid
in
Misery, by Stephen King
- It was so paranoid ....so crazy......My God, he thought, suddenly forgetting the shed, upstairs?†
Chpt 2
- He wanted to tell her so much, wanted to tell her even though he knew that a ravening paranoid like Annie would reject what was so obvious.†
Chpt 2 *
- This woman's feelings, obsessed though they might have been, had never evolved into Annie's paranoid fixation, but Paul understood now that the wellspring had been the same.†
Chpt 3
- It hurt his middle and it hurt his legs and it even hurt his hand; soon he would probably hurt even more, because Annie was paranoid enough to think that if someone was laughing it must be at her.†
Chpt 3
- He supposed there was a certain symbolism in Annie's pantry, the ranks of goods had something to say about the murkiness of the borderline between the Sovereign State of Reality and the People's Republic of Paranoia.†
Chpt 2
- The cellar windows, as if reflecting Annie's paranoia (and there was nothing strange about that, he thought; didn't all houses come, after awhile, to reflect the personalities of their inhabitants?)†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(paranoid used casually) excessively suspicious that others want to harm you; or excessively fearful
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(2)
(paranoid used clinically) suffering from a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others -- thinking "they are out to get me"
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus