paranoid

From paranoia + -oid.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹ.əˌnɔɪd/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹ.əˌnɔɪd/, /ˈpɛɹ.əˌnɔɪd/
• Hyphenation: para‧noid
• Rhymes: -ɔɪd

paranoid (comparative more paranoid, superlative most paranoid)

1. Of, related to, or suffering from clinical paranoia.
2. (informal) Exhibiting excessive fear, suspicion, or distrust.
   • 1984, Rockwell, “Somebody's Watching Me”:

     But can the people on TV see me or am I just paranoid?

   • 2003, Nelson DeMille, Plum Island:

     People generally want to believe good news, and Max was so paranoid about germs that he'd really love to believe Plum Island was spewing antibiotics and vaccine into the air.

   • 2026 February 3, Edward Wong, Julian E. Barnes, quoting Marcel Dirsus, “Ruptures in China’s Leadership Could Be Due to Paranoia and Power Plays”, in The New York Times (Politics section)‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 February 2026:

     “As an autocrat, you have to be paranoid. You’re constantly at risk,” he said. “Everyone around you is lying all the time. You never know who is authentically loyal and who is lying to you.”

paranoid (plural paranoids)

1. A person suffering from paranoia.

• paraonid

• IPA^(key): [paʁanoˈʔiːt]

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧no‧id

paranoid (strong nominative masculine singular paranoider, comparative paranoider, superlative am paranoidesten)

1. paranoid

• “paranoid” in Duden online
• “paranoid”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)

Internationalism, borrowed from English paranoid.

paranoid (comparative lebih paranoid, superlative paling paranoid)

1. paranoid

• “paranoid”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from German paranoid or French paranoïde.

paranoid m (plural paranoizi)

1. paranoid

• paranoid in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

paranoid (comparative paranoidare, superlative paranoidast)

1. paranoid

The singular indefinite neuter is avoided according to the references, but "paranoit" is what would intuitively be expected (and is attested).

• paranoia

• noja

• “paranoid”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “paranoid”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)