noun
Meaning 1
A person with an antisocial personality disorder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sociopath
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Pronunciation
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/ˈsəʊ.si.ə(ʊ)ˌpæθ/
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noun
Meaning 2
someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: psychopath
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: neurotic, psychoneurotic, mental case
History
Etymology
From socio- + -path. First use appears c. 1914.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: сацыяпа́т (sacyjapát) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Belarusian: сацыяпа́тка (sacyjapátka) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Bulgarian: социопа́т (sociopát) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Catalan: sociòpata — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Chinese Mandarin: 反社會者 /反社会者 (fǎnshèhuìzhě) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Chinese Mandarin: 反社會人士 /反社会人士 (fǎnshèhuì rénshì) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Chinese Mandarin: 反社會人格者 /反社会人格者 (fǎnshèhuì réngé zhě) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Czech: sociopat — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Dutch: sociopaat — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Estonian: sotsiopaat — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Finnish: sosiopaatti — person with antisocial personality disorder
- French: sociopathe — person with antisocial personality disorder
- German: Soziopath — person with antisocial personality disorder
- German: Soziopathin — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Greek: κοινωνιοπαθής (koinoniopathís) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Hungarian: szociopata — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Irish: sochapatach — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Italian: sociopatico — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Italian: sociopatica — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Japanese: ソシオパス (soshiopasu) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Japanese: 反社会性パーソナリティ障害 (hanshakaisei pāsonariti shōgai) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Korean: 소시오패스 (sosiopaeseu) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Korean: 반사회성 인격장애 (bansahoeseong in'gyeokjang'ae) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Northern Kurdish: sosyopat — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Macedonian: социопа́т (sociopát) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Polish: socjopata — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Polish: socjopatka — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Portuguese: sociopata — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Romanian: sociopat — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Russian: социопа́т (sociopát) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Russian: социопа́тка (sociopátka) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Slovak: sociopat — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Spanish: sociópata — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Swedish: sociopat — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Turkish: sosyopat — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Ukrainian: соціопа́т (sociopát) — person with antisocial personality disorder
- Ukrainian: соціопа́тка (sociopátka) — person with antisocial personality disorder