PSYCHO | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of psycho in English psychonoun [ C ]   informal uk /ˈsaɪ.kəʊ/ us /ˈsaɪ.koʊ/ plural psychos Add to word list Add to word list someone who is crazy and frightening: The man's a psycho. psychoadjective   informal uk /ˈsaɪ.kəʊ/ us /ˈsaɪ.koʊ/ (of a person) crazy and frightening: He suddenly went psycho and started shooting in all directions. He plays a psycho killer who pushes a woman down a flight of stairs to her death.

• I was in Ireland with my psycho family.
• We've all seen his psycho act too often before.
• She is on the lookout for signs of psycho behaviour.

psycho-prefix uk /saɪ.kəʊ-/ us /saɪ.koʊ-/ of the mind or mental processes: psychopharmacology (= the study of drugs which affect the mind) Science of psychology & psychoanalysis

• anality
• analyse
• analysis
• analytical psychology
• attributional bias
• cognitive psychology
• gestalt
• gestaltist
• id
• individual psychology
• inkblot
• inkblot test
• psychoanalyse
• repression
• reverse psychology
• Rorschach test
• screw
• screw (something) up phrasal verb
• self-alienation
• shock therapy

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Mind and personality (Definition of psycho from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

psycho | American Dictionary

psychonoun us /ˈsɑɪ·koʊ/ plural psychos Add to word list Add to word list infml a psychopath (Definition of psycho from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of psycho, psycho-?

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in Chinese (Traditional) 精神失常者，精神病人，變態人格者, 心理的，精神的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 精神失常者，精神病人，变态人格者, 心理的，精神的… See more in Spanish psicópata, psicopático, psicópata [masculine-feminine… See more in Portuguese psicopata, psicopático, psicótico… See more in Polish in Turkish in French in Norwegian psychol, pomyleniec… See more ruh hastası, deli… See more psychopathe [masculine-feminine]… See more galning [masculine], psykopat [masculine]… See more Need a translator?

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