psychopathic
23
9.3
- adjective
- /ˌsaɪkəˈpæθɪk/
- Ted Bundy is a classic example of the psychopathic and organized serial killer.
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Watch on YouTubeWell, these people are psychopathic and extraordinarily greedy.
- Well, these people are psychopathic and extraordinarily greedy.
- Then you have here narcissistic, psychopathic, serial killer, child molester.
- He's a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist.
- But they're still psychopathic and dangerous.
- So there are people that just are very sadistic and psychopathic and like to kill people.
- So narcissistic people aren't psychotic, nor are they psychopathic.
- They're manipulative, so psychopathic, Machiavellian, narcissistic.
- He's beyond hard and psychopathic and and masochistic and narcissistic.
- Even I've dealt with people who are pretty damn criminal and pretty psychopathic and sometimes dangerously so.
- You've got the monster, which is Glenn Close playing the psychopathic woman who just was obsessed with this guy.
- So you know, I, I, I had marked one of the passages where Swelter is showing like he's just psychopathic character.
- I think men who's been who have been the most destructive in human history are not psychopathic completely.
- And, and you know, you look at the, the what's called the hair test, named after the man who devised it, the hair test of psychopathic traits.
- It was that that that narcissistic Y psychopathic emulation and mirroring.
- I think it adds to the psychopathic tendencies.
Examples
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May I remind you that we have a psychopathic murderer on the loose here?
Fiction book (1995) -
Your Honor, a psychopathic predator will always be a threat to society.
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Moss has no choice but to go after a psychopathic killer pursuing him.
Blog text (20) -
Many in mainstream society characterize gang members as psychopathic and sociopathic, yet understand relatively little about them.
Academic text (2001) -
The criminal psychologist explained how the psychopathic traits of the suspect influenced his violent behavior.
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After years of research, the team found a significant correlation between childhood trauma and psychopathic symptoms in adults.
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The documentary delved into the mind of a psychopathic individual, highlighting their lack of empathy and manipulative behavior.
Synonyms
23
9.1
A person who does not care about other people's rights or feelings
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
1
9.0
A person who feels no guilt and often hurts or lies to others
Surface Forms
Morphology
psychopathic = psychopathy (opaque) = psycho + path + ic
The word is built on the specialized noun 'psychopathy' plus the adjective suffix '-ic', but the technical combining forms are not fully recoverable for an average learner from the surface form alone.
Etymology
Psychopathic comes from the roots psych- meaning 'mind', as in psychology, and -path meaning 'suffering' or 'disease', as in sympathy. So, psychopathic points to a 'mind disease', which helps explain why we use it for someone with a serious mental disorder whose behaviour can be very abnormal or even violent.