What does mental mean?
Definitions for mental
ˈmɛn tlmen·tal
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Princeton's WordNet
mentaladjective
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"
mentaladjective
of or relating to the mind
"mental powers"; "mental development"; "mental hygiene"
mentaladjective
of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks
genial, mentaladjective
of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw
mentaladjective
affected by a disorder of the mind
"a mental patient"; "mental illness"
Wiktionary
mentaladjective
Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.
mentaladjective
Insane, mad, crazy.
mentaladjective
Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
mentaladjective
Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure.
Etymology: From mental, from mentalis, from mens. Also from mentum, depending on usage.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Mentaladjective
Intellectual; existing in the mind.
Etymology: mentale, French; mentis, Lat.
What a mental power
This eye shoots forth? How big imagination
Moves in this lip? To the dumbness of the gesture
One might interpret. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.So deep the pow’r of these ingredients pierc’d,
Ev’n to the inmost seat of mental sight,
That Adam now enforc’d to close his eyes,
Sunk down, and all his spirits became entranc’d. John Milton.The metaphor of taste would not have been so general, had there not been a very great conformity between the mental taste and that sensitive taste that affects the palate. Joseph Addison, Spect. №. 409.
If the ideas be not innate, there was a time when the mind was without those principles; for where the ideas are not, there can be no knowledge, no assent, no mental or verbal propositions about them. John Locke.
She kindly talk’d, at least three hours,
Of plastick forms, and mental pow’rs. Matthew Prior.Those inward representations of spirit, thought, love, and hatred, are pure and mental ideas, belonging especially to the mind, and carry nothing of shape or sense in them. Isaac Watts, Logick.
Webster Dictionary
Mentaladjective
of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region
Mentalnoun
a plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile
Mentaladjective
of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as, mental faculties; mental operations, conditions, or exercise
Etymology: [L. mentum the chin.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Mental
men′tal, adj. pertaining to the mind: done in the mind.—ns. Mental′ity, Mentā′tion.—adv. Men′tally.—adjs. Menticul′tural, improving the mind; Mentif′erous, conveying thought, telepathic.—Mental alienation, insanity; Mental arithmetic, arithmetic performed without the help of written figures. [Fr.,—L. mens, mentis, the mind.]
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Anagrams for mental »
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Lament.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of mental in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of mental in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of mental in a Sentence
A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.
It feels like and sounds like an experiment. They have not been able to flesh out from top to bottom what this Department of Public Safety is gonna look like, you know, if you can't tell us -- and I'm not saying you have to have one hundred percent of everything, you know, fleshed out -- but give us something. You know what I mean? Put some meat on the bones. There's nothing here other than we're gonna have a Department of Public Safety and, you know, it's gonna have mental health workers that go on calls. That's not enough.
We need more money for lots of things. Sometimes our schools can't even afford to buy more glue sticks when they run out. Mental health facilities here always have long waiting lists, boris Johnson went to Eton. I don't think Boris Johnson's going to understand what it's like to live in Redruth. I don't think the G7 is going to mean much.
You just have to take it one day at a time ; some days are easier than others and some days you forget about drinking and using, but for me, I work on my physical health, which is important, but Mental Health as well, i make sure I stay on my medications. I go to AA meetings. I do what I can physically in the gym. I make it a priority.
The label of mental illness is meaningless, there are a ton of people who have a history of something – some kind of emotional trouble – and they are fine. There is no reason in the world they couldn’t serve in the military.
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- عقليArabic
- mentalCatalan, Valencian
- duševníCzech
- geistig, seelisch, psychisch, mentalGerman
- πνευματικός, γενειακός, διανοητικός, πωγωνικός, νοητικός, τρελόςGreek
- mentalSpanish
- psyykkinen, mentaalinen, henkinenFinnish
- mentalFrench
- mentalGalician
- mantalHaitian Creole
- elmebeteg, elvetemültHungarian
- mentoniero, mentale, pazzo, genienoItalian
- 心, 精神的Japanese
- 정신의Korean
- mentisLatin
- mentaal, geestelijkDutch
- mentalOccitan
- psychiczny, umysłowyPolish
- mentalPortuguese
- mental, mintalRomanian
- умственныйRussian
- själslig, psykiskSwedish
- ทางใจThai
- ذہنیUrdu
- cünik, tikälikVolapük
- 心理Chinese
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