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# paranoid

«paranoid» in Mova's school dictionary: **against you, talking about you or trying to trick you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (paranoid; more paranoid, most paranoid); noun (a paranoid, rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (everyday) Too worried that people are against you, talking about you or trying to trick you, without good reason. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paranoid/#m1)

2) (medicine) Having an illness that makes a person have strong false beliefs that others want to harm them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paranoid/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk, "Don't be paranoid" means "you are worrying too much that something bad is happening". In health lessons, being paranoid as an illness needs a doctor and kindness. In online safety, it's good to be careful, which is not the same as paranoid.

### examples

- I'm paranoid that I left the oven on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paranoid/#x1)
- Don't be paranoid; they weren't laughing at you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paranoid/#x2)
- He became paranoid that someone was reading his diary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paranoid/#x3)
- It's sensible to be careful online, not paranoid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paranoid/#x4)
- She felt paranoid after the scary film and checked the locks twice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paranoid/#x5)
- The doctor helped the paranoid patient feel safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paranoid/#x6)

### note

Noun: paranoia. Pronounced "PA-ruh-noid". The everyday use is informal; be gentle with the medical use and do not call people "paranoid" as an insult.

### In the corpora

- [When we are worried, the brain fills gaps with the worst story; "paranoid" means wrongly sure people are against you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/23-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «paranoid» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paranoid/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.