paranoid

疑い深い、被害妄想的な

十分な理由もなく、人に害を加えられることや悪い出来事をひどく心配すること。

やさしい英語で： 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?

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

類義語： suspicious, distrustful

反対語： trusting

よく使う表現： feel paranoid, paranoid about something, a bit paranoid

妄想性の、偏執性の

他人が自分を害そうとしていると強く思い込む、心の病に関すること。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： paranoid delusions, paranoid symptoms, paranoid disorder