mental

5 definitions found

mental - 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 \Men"tal\, n. (Zool.)
     A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or
     reptile.
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  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 - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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 liplike structure in insects
         and certain mollusks
      4: of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw
         [syn: genial, mental]
      5: affected by a disorder of the mind; "a mental patient";
         "mental illness"

mental - 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