Mental

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: men=tal

CIDE DICTIONARY

Mental, a. [L. mentum the chin.].

 Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.  [1913 Webster]

Mental, n. 

 A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.  [1913 Webster]

Mental, 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!"  [1913 Webster]

Mental alienation, insanity. -- Mental arithmetic, the art or practice of solving arithmetical problems by mental processes, unassisted by written figures.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Mental, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or in the mind.
2 done by the mind.
3 colloq. a insane. b crazy, wild, eccentric (is mental about pop music).
--n. colloq. a mental patient.

Idiom

mental age the degree of a person's mental development expressed as an age at which the same degree is attained by an average person. mental arithmetic arithmetic performed in the mind. mental asylum (or home or hospital or institution) an establishment for the care of mental patients. mental cruelty the infliction of suffering on another's mind, esp. Law as grounds for divorce. mental defective esp. US a person with impaired mental abilities. mental deficiency imperfect mental development leading to abnormally low intelligence. mental illness a disorder of the mind. mental nurse a nurse dealing with mentally ill patients. mental patient a sufferer from mental illness. mental reservation a qualification tacitly added in making a statement etc.

Derivative

mentally adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF mental or LL mentalis f. L mens -ntis mind

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Mental

Intellect

N intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle, rationality, cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties, faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius, brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers, wit, ability, wisdom, Vernunft, Verstand, soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core, the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle, brain, organ of thought, seat of thought, sensorium, sensory, head, headpiece, pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium, cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story, central processing unit, CPU, arithmetic and logical unit, ALU, metaphysics, psychics, psychology, ideology, mental philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of the mind, pneumatology, phrenology, craniology, cranioscopy, ideality, idealism, transcendentalism, spiritualism, immateriality, universal concept, universal conception, metaphysician, psychologist, intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual, ghostly, psychical, psychological, cerebral, animastic, brainy, hyperphysical, superphysical, subconscious, subliminal, immaterial, endowed with reason, in petto, ens rationis, frons est animi janua, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, mens sola loco non exulat, my mind is my kingdom, stern men with empires in their brains, the mind, the music breathing from her face, thou living ray of intellectual Fire.