mental
IPA: mˈɛntʌɫ
noun
- (zootomy) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
adjective
- (relational) Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
- Of or relating to intellectual as contrasted with emotional activity.
- Of, relating to, or being intellectual as contrasted with overt physical activity.
- Occurring or experienced in the mind.
- Relating to the mind, its activity, or its products as an object of study.
- Relating to spirit or idea as opposed to matter.
- Of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder.
- (relational) Intended for the care or treatment of persons affected by psychiatric disorders.
- (colloquial, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, dated in the US, Canada, comparable) Mentally disordered; insane, mad, crazy.
- (colloquial, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, comparable) Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way.
- Of or relating to telepathic or mind-reading powers.
- (anatomy, relational) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
- (biology, relational) Of or relating to the chinlike or liplike structure.
Advertisement
Examples of "mental" in Sentences
- Excerpt: The term mental retardation was supposed to be an improvement.
- They need a positive mental (Int or Wis in this case) which follows the +physical/+mental/- anything format.
- Clay Shirky used (coined?) the term mental transaction costs to describe the problem with using micropayments (small payments to download articles or music).
- Hearing the term mental block, she had always envisioned her barriers as just that, blocks—brightly colored and piled up in a wall between her and whatever she wanted to shut out.
- Dr. ALLEN FRANCES (Psychiatrist): Over the course of time, we've become looser and looser in applying the term mental disorder to the expectable aches and pains and sufferings of everyday life.
- Like many agency heads, SAMHSA Administrator Pamela Hyde has abandoned use of the term mental "illness" and avoids the term "mental health" feeling these are too limiting to their agencies newly formed expansive mission.
- Psychology, even so empirical a psychology as is possible of demonstration in western schools and colleges, evidences the fact that there is a far greater field of mental operation than is covered by the outer, or _mental_ consciousness.
- Western Science, while performing a marvelous work in piling up fact after fact to support its newly-discovered theory of Evolution, in a way utterly unknown to the Oriental thinker who seeks after principles by mental concentration -- _within_ rather than without -- while actually proving by physical facts the _mental_ conceptions of the
Advertisement
Advertisement