Define the word mental"Mental" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Mental \Men"tal\, a. [L. mentum the chin.] (Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve;
the mental region.
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"Mental" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Mental \Men"tal\, n. (Zool.)
A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or
reptile.
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"Mental" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
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.
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What a mental power
This eye shoots forth! --Shak.
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Mental alienation, insanity.
Mental arithmetic, the art or practice of solving
arithmetical problems by mental processes, unassisted by
written figures.
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"mental" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
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"
"mental" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "mental":
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
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