妄想狂

wàngxiǎngkuáng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 paranoiac; person suffering from delusions of grandeur or persecution
  2. 2 megalomaniac

Examples

Tā déle wàngxiǎngkuáng, juéde zhōuwéi de rén dōu zài jiānshì tā.
He has paranoid delusions and feels everyone around him is watching him.
Zhège dúcáizhě jiǎnzhí shì gè wàngxiǎngkuáng.
This dictator is basically a megalomaniac.

Tips

usage
Older psychiatric register; in modern clinical Chinese the term is usually 妄想 (wàngxiǎngzhèng, 'delusional disorder'). 妄想狂 lingers in literary writing and journalism, often used loosely for any wildly self-aggrandizing person rather than as a diagnosis.

Stroke Order

wàng
xiǎng
kuáng