paranoid

paranoïaque, méfiant

Très inquiet, sans raison valable, à l’idée que les autres pourraient lui nuire ou qu’un malheur pourrait arriver.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : paranoid about something (He is paranoid about losing his phone.); paranoid that… (She was paranoid that everyone was laughing at her.)

Synonymes : suspicious, distrustful

Contraires : trusting

Expressions courantes : feel paranoid, paranoid about something, a bit paranoid

paranoïaque

Qui présente ou concerne un trouble mental causant la conviction erronée et persistante que les autres veulent lui nuire.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : paranoid delusions, paranoid symptoms, paranoid disorder