妄想狂

wàngxiǎngkuáng

noun

Meanings

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

Characters

absurd / preposterous

Examples

HSK 7-9

他得了妄想狂，觉得周围的人都在监视他。

Tā dé le wàngxiǎngkuáng, juéde zhōuwéi de rén dōu zài jiānshì tā.

He has paranoid delusions and feels everyone around him is watching him.

HSK 7-9

这个独裁者简直是个妄想狂。

Zhège dúcáizhě jiǎnzhí shì gè wàngxiǎngkuáng.

This dictator is basically a megalomaniac.

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usage

Older psychiatric register; in modern clinical Chinese the term is usually 妄想症 ('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

妄 wàng

想 xiǎng

狂 kuáng