bipolar
disorder n.
1. A psychiatric disorder marked by alternating episodes of mania and depression.
Also called bipolar illness, manic-depressive illness.
de·men·tia
\De*men"ti*a\ n.
1. Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and
judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain. It is
often accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes.
2. Madness; insanity.
de·pressed
\De*pressed"\ adj.
1. Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.
car·ri·on
\Car"ri*on\ n.
1. Dead and decaying flesh
2.Of or similar to dead and decaying flesh. (adj.)
3.Feeding on such flesh. (adj.)
felo-de-se
\Fe"lo-de-se`\, n. [LL. felo, E. felon + de of, concerning + se self.]
1. One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or loses his life
while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act; a suicide.
gloom
\Gloom\ n.
1. Partial or total darkness; dimness: switched on a table lamp to banish the
gloom of a winter afternoon.
2. A partially or totally dark place, area, or location.
3. An atmosphere of melancholy or depression: Gloom pervaded the office.
4. A state of melancholy or depression; despondency.
glos·so·la·li·a
\Glos`so*la"li*a\ n.
1. Fabricated and nonmeaningful speech, especially such speech associated with
a trance state or certain schizophrenic syndromes.
2. See gift of tongues.
har·py
\Har"py\n. pl. Har·pies
1. Greek Mythology. One of several loathsome, voracious monsters with the head
and trunk of a woman and the tail, wings, and talons of a bird.
2. harpy A predatory person.
3. harpy A shrewish woman.
holy
terror
n :
1. a very troublesome child [syn: terror, brat, little terror] source of persiste
ill-fat·ed
adj.
1. Destined for misfortune; doomed.
2. Marked by or causing misfortune; unlucky. See Synonyms at unfortunate.
lych-gate
n. [Middle English lycheyate : lyche, corpse, body + gate, yate]
1. A roofed gateway to a churchyard used originally as a resting place for a
bier before burial. also: Lich wall; wake; way..
mis·an·thrope
\msn-thrp, mz-\ n. also mis·an·thro·pist \ms-nthr-pst,
mz-\.
1. One who hates or mistrusts humankind
[French from Greek misanthrpos, hating mankind: miso-, miso- + anthrpos, man.]
omega
\O*me"ga\ n.
1. The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.
2. The last; the end; hence, death.
posttraumatic
stress disorder n. Abbr. PTSD
1. an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized
by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or
numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images
rap·ture
\Rap"ture\n.
1. The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy.
2. An expression of ecstatic feeling. Often used in the plural.
3. The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven.
un·for·tu·nate
\Un*for"tu*nate\ a.
1. Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune;
unhappy
wrath
\Wrath\ n.
1. Forceful, often vindictive anger. See Synonyms at anger.
2. Punishment or vengeance as a manifestation of anger.
3. Divine retribution for sin.