Schizophrenic in a sentence as a noun

The author may be a schizophrenic, what he has built is kinda neat.

He is, really, classic schizophrenic. There's no other way to say it.

I had a schizophrenic guy send me regular e-mails for about two months. For reasons still unknown to me, he decided that I was the one person in the world that he could trust.

He is schizophrenic. One of the defining features of schizophrenia is that they can't be reasoned with.

Another was a guy who was clearly paranoid schizophrenic. His cell was opposite mine.

I am not even making any moral judgement here, I am just shocked of how schizophrenic it is. People don't even bother about coherence any more?

To an outsider like me, Google seems almost schizophrenic... adding features, removing them, and then Gmail on android is just "not good".

The user interface is so schizophrenic that it's not funny. Sometimes I wonder if MS would have been better served offering two version: one with the new metro UI and one without.

Nash did all his best work before he became schizophrenic. I would be more inclined to blame the major mental illness for any falloff in the quantity or quality of his output, rather than the treatment he received for it.

Co-developed by HAL and Ape, the coding was rather schizophrenic from the outset. Eventually large parts were rewritten by Shigesato Itoi himself, as the legend goes.

I have talked with men so schizophrenic I almost cried to see a human mind so shattered before me. I have slept with a woman for no other purpose than to hear her rise "to go to the bathroom" so I could follow her and ensure she wasn't going to the kitchen to do the serious wrist thing.

About 1% are schizophrenic. About 1% are autistic.

Schizophrenic in a sentence as an adjective

This "old" blog hints at something sort of hypocritical or schizophrenic about startup culture. On one hand its hackery and lone wolfish and disruptively anti establishment.

It is a rare mental illness that has part schizophrenia and part bipolar in that it has schizophrenic, depressed, manic, and normal cycles lasting about two weeks each. Every time I tried to post about mental illnesses and startups here, I always got downvoted and flagged.

I'm working on a game titled Aerannis about a female assassin who may or may not be schizophrenic. She fears that she's losing touch with reality entirely and trapped in a world of her own delusions, but comes to realize that she may really just be the center of a global conspiracy.

And what makes the comparison even more relevant is that MS has actively attempted, and failed, to copy both of the other leaders--Ad center is a failure, MS online strategy is balkanized and schizophrenic, the zune is dead, and WP7 is not gaining traction. That failure is reflected in the chart.

Entrepreneurs can seem schizophrenic, balancing logical considerations with the desire to do something extraordinary and contrarian. But helping him navigate this is what makes you a good friend.

Certainly there is a lot of room for improvement and terms like disorder, psychopath, multiple personality, schizophrenic are abused and misused but there are behavioural patterns and characteristics by which people can be clustered. The mistake most people make is to think these clusters are static and disjoint.

The default subs are unrreadable dreck, the politics a mix of the ugliest libertarian meets social justice warrior ****, and the mod policy a schizophrenic per sub mess that pleases no one. Most subs seem completely overwhelmed and just resort to strict rules and 'self post only' policies to keep some level of sanity.

I worked in a group that was not engineering, and had the same schizophrenic experience with respect to what I was told was the culture, what was expected and what the reality was. The culture of facebook is that of a pretentious enclave of people who think that simply their being at facebook is validation of their any actions or motivations.

I never liked the fact that their schizophrenic content releases would appear during a timed window, only to disappear from my list later before I actually got a chance to watch it. I grew to avoid movies labeled with the Starz logo, and my heart would sink when a feature would open with one, because I knew the experience was fleeting and I wouldn't be able to enjoy the content later.

This adds to the absurdity and schizophrenic nature of the issue: many pros use multiple monitor setups, and yet Apple went into the pro apps and degraded them to now only work with one monitor in full screen mode. Of course, this shouldn't be surprising, its really a microcosm of the entire Lion release: very little to no new functionality and instead unneeded "tweaking" of existing behavior.

Meanwhile, Apple is going to put all their energy into a single photo system, instead of trying to do some schizophrenic split between iPhoto/Aperture - I expect to see a pretty excellent system out of it. Perhaps it's because I don't work commercial or event photography, but the reality is that most of what I use Aperture for these days could probably be done with a slightly beefier iPhoto - which is pretty much what Photos is going to become.

Schizophrenic definitions

noun

someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia

adjective

suffering from some form of schizophrenia; "schizophrenic patients"

adjective

of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia

See also: schizoid