Sadistic vs Psycho - What's the difference?
sadistic | psycho |
Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain of others.
(pejorative, slang) A person who is psychotic or otherwise insane.
(pejorative, slang) A person who acts in a bizarre or dangerous manner.
(informal) A class, at a college or university, in which psychology is taught.
As adjectives the difference between sadistic and psycho
is that sadistic is delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others while psycho is (colloquial|or|pejorative) psychotic, or otherwise insane.As a noun psycho is
(pejorative|slang) a person who is psychotic or otherwise insane.sadistic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.
psycho
English
Noun
(en noun)- The loony bin up on the hill is full of psychos .
- She complained that he was a psycho for driving at such a high speed in heavy traffic.
- "I've got anthro, socio, lunch, and psycho."