paranoid

paranoico, desconfiado

Muy preocupado, sin motivos suficientes, porque cree que otros pueden hacerle daño o que algo malo va a pasar.

En inglés sencillo: Feeling very worried that people may harm you or that something bad will happen, without good reason.

• I'm getting paranoid about my keys.
• He became paranoid that someone was following him.
• Are we being paranoid about online security?

Cómo se usa: paranoid about something (He is paranoid about losing his phone.); paranoid that… (She was paranoid that everyone was laughing at her.)

Sinónimos: suspicious, distrustful

Antónimos: trusting

Expresiones frecuentes: feel paranoid, paranoid about something, a bit paranoid

paranoide, paranoico

Que padece o implica un trastorno mental con creencias falsas y firmes de que otras personas quieren hacerle daño.

En inglés sencillo: Having or involving a mental condition that causes strong false beliefs that others want to harm you.

• The patient experienced paranoid delusions.
• Treatment reduced her paranoid symptoms.
• A psychiatrist assessed his increasingly paranoid beliefs.

Expresiones frecuentes: paranoid delusions, paranoid symptoms, paranoid disorder