Word Frequency
mental1 (ˈmɛntəl
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Definitions
adjective
- of or involving the mind or an intellectual process
- occurring only in the mind ⇒
mental calculations
- affected by mental illness ⇒
a mental patient
Preferred form: psychiatric - concerned with care for persons with mental illness ⇒
a mental hospital
Preferred form: psychiatric - (slang) insane
Derived Forms
ˈmentally adverbWord Origin
C15: from Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns mindSynonyms
View thesaurus entry = psychiatric, psychogenic
= insane, mad, disturbed, unstable, mentally ill, lunatic, psychotic, unbalanced, deranged, round the bend, as daft as a brush, not right in the head, a sausage short of a fry-up
Translations for 'mental'
- British English: mental Mental means relating to the mind and the process of thinking....the mental development of children.ˈmɛntl ADJECTIVE
- Arabic: عَقْلِيّ
- Brazilian Portuguese: mental
- Chinese: 精神的
- Croatian: duševni duševna
- Czech: duševní
- Danish: mental
- Dutch: geestelijk
- European Spanish: mental
- Finnish: henkinen
- French: mental
- German: geistig
- Greek: διανοητικός διανοητική
- Italian: mentale
- Japanese: 精神の
- Korean: 정신적인
- Norwegian: mental
- Polish: umysłowy umysłowa
- Portuguese: mental
- Romanian: mintal mintal, mintală, mintali, mintale
- Russian: умственный умственная
- Spanish: mental
- Swedish: mental mentalt
- Thai: ทางจิตใจ
- Turkish: akıl
- Ukrainian: розумовий
- Vietnamese: thuộc về tinh thần
Example Sentences Including 'mental'
A recent run of two wins from 10 suggests Wolves lack the necessary mental strength.Irish Times (2002)
According to the mental health charity Sane, one in three people with a serious mental illness is turned away from services.Glasgow Herald (2001)
And Julia had forgotten to buy a map, and Ellie was continuing to have a mental block about the name of their hotel.LOOKING FOR ANDREW McCARTHY (2002)
He always looked forward to coming home to the house in Randwick; he valued home, like a comforting mental condition.YESTERDAY'S SHADOW (2002)
Patients on memantine showed a similar resilience in the decline of their mental status - or cognitive ability.New Scientist (2003)
The primary question will be mental , the one area where they couldn't get the better of Meath last year.Irish Times (2002)
There should be little surprise then about their unthinking acceptance of the biological model of mental illness.BEYOND FEAR (2002)
They propped their faces up with their fists, stretching their mouths to the size of mental patients '.BLOOD IS DIRT (2002)
This, in turn, leads to a loss of brain tissue causing a decline in mental activity.Glasgow Herald (2001)
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