adjective, noun
adjective (also less frequent paranoiac )
1 afraid or suspicious of other people and believing that they are trying to harm you, in a way that is not reasonable:
She's getting really paranoid about what other people say about her.
2 suffering from a mental illness in which you wrongly believe that other people are trying to harm you or that you are very important:
paranoid delusions * paranoid schizophrenia * a paranoid killer
noun (also paranoiac ) a person who suffers from paranoia
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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