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Definition: Psychopathic |
PsychopathicAdjective1. Suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "psychopathic" was first used: 1847. (references) |
Synonyms: PsychopathicSynonyms: psychopathologic (adj), psychopathological (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Because's he's playing a psychopathic flesh-eating robot. (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis. Starring Julia Roberts as Anna Scott and Hugh Grant as William Thacker.) | |
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| "Psychopathic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Psychopathic" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 63 | 42,364 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "psychopathic": psychopathic condition ♦ psychopathic personality. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "psychopathic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سيكوباتي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 精神病 (Psychosis, psychotic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | psykopatisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | psychopaat (psychopath, psychopathic personality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | luonnevikainen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | psychopathique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | psychopathisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψυχοπαθήσ (psychopath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פסיכופתי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lelkibeteg (neurotic, psycho, psychopath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | psicopatico (psychopath), frenopatico (psychotic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 병자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ychopathicpsay personalidade anormal (psychopathic personality). (various references) психопатный, психопатический. (various references) psicopático (psychotic). (various references) psikopat (psychopath). (various references) психопатичний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | psykhe-. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "psychopathic": psychopathically, psychopathics. (additional references) | |
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"Psychopathic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: psychopathy, psychopatic, psycopathic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "psychopathic" (pronounced sī'kupa"thik) |
| 6 | -u p a" th i k | osteopathic. |
| 3 | -th i k | ethic, gothic, lithic, monolithic, mythic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-h-i-o-p-p-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: phosphatic, psychopath. | |
-3 letters: psychotic. | |
-4 letters: copycats, picachos, spiccato. | |
-5 letters: aphotic, chaotic, copycat, copyist, hipshot, isopach, isotach, opacity, photics, picacho, psoatic, psychic, sapphic, spathic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-h-i-o-p-p-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: psychopathics. | |
+4 letters: psychopathically, psychopathologic. | |
+5 letters: psychotherapeutic. | |
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