5 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

mental

adjective

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"

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Mental \Men"tal\, adjective [L. mentum the chin.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Mental \Men"tal\, noun (Zo["o]l.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Mental \Men"tal\, adjective [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.

What a mental power This eye shoots forth! --Shak.

{Mental alienation}, insanity.

{Mental arithmetic}, the art or practice of solving arithmetical problems by mental processes, unassisted by written figures.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

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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