Dictionary Definition
mental adj
1 involving the mind or an intellectual process;
"mental images of happy times"; "mental calculations"; "in a
terrible mental state"; "mental suffering"; "free from mental
defects" [ant: physical]
2 of or relating to the mind; "mental powers";
"mental development"; "mental hygiene"
3 of or relating to the chin- or lip-like
structure in insects and certain mollusks
4 of or relating to the chin or median part of
the lower jaw [syn: genial]
5 affected by a disorder of the mind; "a mental
patient"; "mental illness"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛntəl
Etymology
From mental.Adjective
Derived terms
Translations
relating to the mind
relating to the chin
- Italian: mentale, mentoniero, genieno
relating to the chin-like structure
relating to a crazy person
- Italian: trans-top|relating to amatto]], pazzo
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
mentalNoun
mental (singular only)- mind
- Elle a un mental d'acier.
German
Adjective
Spanish
Adjective
Related terms
Extensive Definition
jobins mental research
Mental can refer to:
- Mind, the collective aspects of intellect and consciousness
- The Mental nerve, part of the peripheral nervous system in the face
- The Mental scale, a snake scale pertaining to the chin or lower jaw that is addressed by the mental nerve
- Mental (band), a hardcore punk band
- "Mental" is used as an adjective slang term, meaning "extremely stupid" or "insanity"
mental in French: Mental
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abnormal, abstract, affective, balmy, bananas, barmy, batty, bereft of reason, bonkers, brainsick, cerebral, certifiable, characteristic, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, constitutional, contemplating, contemplative, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crazed, crazy, daft, deliberating, deliberative, deluded, demented, deprived of reason,
deranged, disoriented, dispositional, distraught, disturbed, emotional, endopsychic, excogitating, flighty, fruity, hallucinated, ideative, ideological, immaterial, innate, inner, insane, intellectual, intelligent, internal, introspective, irrational, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, maddened, maniac, manic, mazed, meditating, meditative, mentally
deficient, mentally ill, meshuggah, mindless, moon-struck, museful, musing, noetic, non compos, non compos
mentis, noological,
not all there, not right, nuts, nutty, odd, of unsound mind, off, pensive, perceptual, phrenic, pondering, prehensive, psychic, psychical, psycho, psychologic, psychological, psychotic, queer, rational, reasoning, reasonless, reflecting, reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, screwy, senseless, serious, sick, sober, speculative, spiritual, stark-mad,
stark-staring mad, strange, subjective, telepathic, temperamental, tetched, theoretical, thinking, thought, thoughtful, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unstable, wandering, wistful, witless