parano

paranoid

adjective pah-rah-NO Rare

Usage Note

Parano is informal, shortened from paranoïaque. It is invariable in gender and number in colloquial usage — elle est parano, ils sont parano — though in careful writing paranos appears as plural. It is used loosely to mean overly suspicious or anxious rather than in a clinical psychiatric sense. The full form paranoïaque is used in medical contexts.

Examples

"Arrête d'être parano, personne ne te surveille."

Natural Translation

Stop being paranoid, nobody is watching you.

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