'Mental' definitions:
Definition of 'mental'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Of or relating to the mind; "mental powers"; "mental development"; "mental hygiene"
adjective
Of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks
adjective
Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw [syn: genial, mental]
adjective
Affected by a disorder of the mind; "a mental patient"; "mental illness"
Definition of 'Mental'
From: GCIDE
- Mental \Men"tal\, a. [L. mentum the chin.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mental'
From: GCIDE
- Mental \Men"tal\, n. (Zool.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mental'
From: GCIDE
- Mental \Men"tal\, a. [F., fr. L. mentalis, fr. mens, mentis, the mind; akin to E. mind. See Mind.] Of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as, mental faculties; mental operations, conditions, or exercise. [1913 Webster]
- What a mental power This eye shoots forth! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Mental alienation, insanity.
- Mental arithmetic, the art or practice of solving arithmetical problems by mental processes, unassisted by written figures. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mental'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Mental'
- Mentality,
- Mentally,
- mentalism,
- Mental alienation,
- Mental arithmetic,
- Mental physiology,
- Mental reservation,
- bunker mentality,
- create mentally,
- mental ability,
- mental abnormality,
- mental age,
- mental anguish,
- mental attitude,
- mental balance,
- mental block,
- mental capacity,
- mental case,
- mental condition,
- mental confusion,
- mental defectiveness,
- mental deficiency,
- mental dexterity,
- mental disease,
- mental disorder,
- mental disturbance,
- mental energy,
- mental exhaustion,
- mental faculty,
- mental health,
- mental home,
- mental hospital,
- mental hygiene,
- mental illness,
- mental image,
- mental imagery,
- mental institution,
- mental lexicon,
- mental measurement,
- mental note,
- mental object,
- mental pain,
- mental picture,
- mental process,
- mental quickness,
- mental rejection,
- mental representation,
- mental retardation,
- mental soundness,
- mental state,
- mental strain,
- mental synthesis,
- mental telepathist,
- mental test,
- mental testing,
- mental unsoundness,
- mentally ill,
- mentally retarded,
- create by mental act,
- creating by mental acts