偏执 (piān zhí) — (stative verb) stubborn and biased, bigoted; (stative verb, psychology) paranoid
Definition
Adjective describing a person or personality that is stubbornly fixated on one's own ideas and refuses to consider others — a stronger, more clinical word than 固执 ('stubborn'), often used in psychology to describe paranoid tendencies.
adjective
(stative verb) stubborn and biasedbigoted(stative verb, psychology) paranoid
Examples
- 偏执，。Tā duì bié rén de yì jiàn fēi cháng piān zhí, hěn nán shuō fú.He is very stubborn about others' opinions and hard to convince.
- 偏执。Zhè zhǒng piān zhí de xìng gé ràng tā shī qù le hěn duō péng you.This paranoid personality made him lose many friends.
- 偏执。Tā yīn wèi piān zhí de xiǎng fǎ ér jù jué le suǒ yǒu de bāng zhù.She rejected all help because of her bigoted ideas.
Appears in
Browse more HSK 7-9 words or search the full 43,000-word dictionary.