Meaning of the word mental

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Studies, including research in JAMA Surgery, have shown that gender-affirming care can be life-saving for transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents, promoting positive mental and physical health and well-being.


—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2023




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To combat burnout and fatigue, prioritize your mental and physical well-being by taking breaks and engaging in self-care activities like exercise, meditation or pursuing a personal passion.


—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2023




The Alabama Department of Corrections plans to enter a contract with a mental hospital to provide in-patient care for inmates.


—Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al, 27 Mar. 2023




Studies have shown that telehealth patients have reported better mental and physical health, and that virtual visits led to fewer physician visits and hospital admissions.


—Sally Pipes, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023




Three days later, Otieno would be dead; authorities say he was asphyxiated after sheriff’s deputies and hospital workers piled upon him at a state mental hospital in an incident that was caught on video.


—Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023




It has been designed to improve mental clarity and help reduce fatigue throughout the day.


—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2023




The family of a Black Virginia man who died after getting handcuffed, shackled and pinned to the ground by deputies at a state mental hospital, called on the U.S. Department of Justice to intervene in the matter after watching video of the incident on Thursday, according to reports.


—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2023


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adjective

of or relating to the mind: mental powers;mental suffering.

of, relating to, or affected by a disorder of the mind: a mental patient;mental illness.

providing care for persons with disordered minds, emotions, etc.: a mental hospital.

performed by or existing in the mind: mental arithmetic;a mental note.

pertaining to intellectuals or intellectual activity.

Informal. slightly daft; out of one’s mind; crazy: He’s mental.

noun

Informal. a person with a psychological disorder: a fascist group made up largely of mentals.

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Origin of mental

1

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin mentālis, equivalent to Latin ment- (stem of mēns ) mind + -ālis-al1

Words nearby mental

mensural notation, mensuration, mensurative, menswear, -ment, mental, mental age, mental block, mental cruelty, mental deficiency, mental disorder

Other definitions for mental (2 of 2)

adjective

of or relating to the chin.

Origin of mental

2

First recorded in 1720–30; from Latin ment(um) “the chin” (see mentum) + -al1

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MORE ABOUT MENTAL

What does mental mean?

Mental is an adjective that means relating to the mind.

It is especially used in contrast with physical, which means relating to the body. Mental is commonly used in the context of psychological disorders or the care and treatment of people who have them. One of its most common uses is in the phrase mental health.

Mental is sometimes used as a slang term with the same meaning as the informal sense of crazy, especially in the U.K. It’s typically used to describe a person or their behavior as being extreme or illogical in some way. Keep in mind, however, that when used in this way, words like crazy and mental may reinforce harmful stereotypes and associations with mental illness.

Example: To be an elite athlete, you have to be physically strong, but you also have to perfect the mental aspects of your game.

Where does mental come from?

The first records of mental come from around the 1400s. It comes from the Late Latin term mentālis, which derives from the Latin mens, meaning “mind.”

Due to the rise in acceptance, study, and treatment of mental illness, mental is very closely associated with such issues. It is often seen in phrases like mental health, mental fatigue, and mental hygiene. It is also very commonly used in a general way to describe things related to the mind or done in the mind, such as in the phrases mental note (a thought to remember something later), mental image (a picture seen in one’s mind), and mental math or mental arithmetic (math done in one’s head, as opposed to with a calculator or on paper).

Mental also has a definition separate from the mind entirely. The word mentum refers to the chin, so mental can be used to mean “relating to the chin.”

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How is mental used in real life?

Mental is most generally used to indicate things done with or in the mind as opposed to with the body. It is very closely associated with issues of mental health.

Teens with mental illness dismissed as ‘teenagers’, women as ’emotional’, and men told to ‘man up’. Ignore the stigma. Illness isn’t shame.

— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) August 30, 2017

1/Goal setting in times of high trauma. Passing on a tip that I’ve learned across the years. Though my ambition & instinct is to give myself a full agenda filled with lofty goals, I find when trauma is already pushing down on you those lists can lead to collapse & mental fatigue

— Rachel Miner (@RachelMiner1) March 30, 2020

After surprising myself with some mental math tonight I kinda wish I knew a way to get back into tutoring higher math. I miss that being one of my jobs

— Evan Edinger (@EvanEdinger) August 31, 2018

Try using mental!

Which of the following actions is LEAST likely to be described as mental?

A. calculating a sum in your head
B. meditating
C. doing a push-up
D. picturing something in your mind

Words related to mental

cerebral, intellectual, psychic, psychological, spiritual, subjective, psychiatric, brainy, clairvoyant, deep, heavy, ideological, imaginative, immaterial, inner, intellective, mysterious, phrenic, psychical, rational

How to use mental in a sentence

  • We want to be the brand bringing science ancestral wisdom while also actively supporting positive mental well-being and an outer glow.

  • This all had taken a toll on Terry, who had been grappling with his own mental health.

  • The commission stressed that babies resulting from germline edits will have to be followed long term, to better understand any potential health issues—mental or physical—throughout their lives.

  • This mental competition sets up an arms race—a scenario in which competition causes each side to accumulate potential to damage the other.

  • The platform will also dive into philanthropy by highlighting local community issues providing mental health services for children as well as residents of public housing.

  • In the classic skillset of piloting, mental acuity, and its coordination with hand and foot movements, is equally vital.

  • Few reports of his mental illness discuss lead poisoning as a possible reason for his mental deterioration.

  • They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.

  • “We all need to take care of our own mental health,” Darden said.

  • He suggested I needed mental help, and offered to help me transfer to another college.

  • And this college course I have sketched should, in the modern state, pass insensibly into adult mental activities.

  • It makes out of the savage raw material which is our basal mental stuff, a citizen.

  • To make the effort of articulation a vital impulse in response to a mental concept,—this is the object sought.

  • The two enjoyed a mutual understanding from which he was excluded, a private intimacy that was spiritual, mental,— physical.

  • He took mental inventory of his possessions and what he could lay claim to, and he happened to think about his wife’s homestead.

British Dictionary definitions for mental (1 of 2)

adjective

of or involving the mind or an intellectual process

occurring only in the mindmental calculations

affected by mental illnessa mental patient Preferred form: psychiatric

concerned with care for persons with mental illnessa mental hospital Preferred form: psychiatric

slang insane

Derived forms of mental

mentally, adverb

Word Origin for mental

C15: from Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns mind

British Dictionary definitions for mental (2 of 2)

adjective

anatomy of or relating to the chinAlso: genial

Word Origin for mental

C18: from Latin mentum chin

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Psychology, even so empirical a psychology as is possible of demonstration in western schools and colleges, evidences the fact that there is a far greater field of mental operation than is covered by the outer, or _mental_ consciousness. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Western Science, while performing a marvelous work in piling up fact after fact to support its newly-discovered theory of Evolution, in a way utterly unknown to the Oriental thinker who seeks after principles by mental concentration — _within_ rather than without — while actually proving by physical facts the _mental_ conceptions of the ❋ William Walker Atkinson (1897)

They need a positive mental (Int or Wis in this case) which follows the +physical/+mental/- anything format. ❋ Transbot9 (2009)

Hearing the term mental block, she had always envisioned her barriers as just that, blocks—brightly colored and piled up in a wall between her and whatever she wanted to shut out. ❋ Diane Duane (1993)

Like many agency heads, SAMHSA Administrator Pamela Hyde has abandoned use of the term mental «illness» and avoids the term «mental health» feeling these are too limiting to their agencies newly formed expansive mission. ❋ DJ Jaffe (2011)

Dr. ALLEN FRANCES (Psychiatrist): Over the course of time, we’ve become looser and looser in applying the term mental disorder to the expectable aches and pains and sufferings of everyday life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Clay Shirky used (coined?) the term mental transaction costs to describe the problem with using micropayments (small payments to download articles or music). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Excerpt: The term mental retardation was supposed to be an improvement. ❋ Kay Olson (2007)

Primitive personality disorder PPD is the term mental health professionals use to describe this set of characteristics. ❋ Kay Olson (2006)

And then there’s «Primitive personality disorder PPD is the term mental health professionals use to describe this set of characteristics.» ❋ Kay Olson (2006)

To this end, he cultivated physical force, sufficient to overcome his environment; and as he developed a little of that consciousness which we term mental (using the term merely as a part of the physical organism called the brain), he realized that co-operation would greatly enhance his chances for self-preservation, and therefore, this mental consciousness impelled him to annex to his forces other physical organisms so that their united strength might preserve each other. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It studies a certain number of laws which we term mental, in opposition to those of external nature, from which they differ, but which, properly speaking, do not deserve the qualification of mental, since they are — or at least the best known of them are — laws of the images, and the images are material elements. ❋ Alfred Binet (1884)

The term mental health doesn’t on its own help anyone but is preferable to mad and your other preferred terms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So I have to warn you that the way I’m using the term mental model does not fit with at least one of the new definitions I’ve been reading and hearing about lately. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Many people tend to stray away from help because when they hear the term mental health, they automatically think mental illness, Briggs said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One reason why the term mental retardation is unacceptable to so many people is because of the insensitive, uncaring, unfeeling use of the word «retard.» ❋ Dr. Murray Feingold/DAILY NEWS CORRESPONDENT (2009)

That [barrel] was [straight up] mental ❋ Jote (2005)

«I [have been] practicing a lot so I just need to [work on] my mental.»
«We just need to [make sure] our mental is strong.» ❋ _(N0S)_ (2019)

«hey look, [archie’s] jumping [off that] [cliff] while holding a banana!»
«wow! he’s mental!» ❋ Arto (2005)

[that dude’s] mental because he [fucked] his own [sister]. ❋ Mentallyyyy (2003)

[That kid] is so mental. He makes [Homer Simpson] look [smart]. ❋ Light Joker (2006)

When [you’re in] [deep doo-doo], you’ve just [gotta] mental your way through it. ❋ Nome De Plume (2008)

❋ He Who Shall Not Be Named (2003)

The mental on that [song] is [fire]. ❋ R (2004)

[too much] mentalation ❋ Pali High (2008)

[Take care of] [y’all] mentals.
-Marshawn [Lynch] ❋ Brewty (2020)

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛn.təl/
    • IPA(key): [ˈmɛɾ̃ɘl], [ˈmɛnɘl]
  • Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowing from Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis, from mēns (“mind, disposition; heart, soul”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Adjective[edit]

mental (comparative more mental, superlative most mental)

  1. (relational) Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
    1. Of or relating to intellectual as contrasted with emotional activity.

      mental acuity

    2. Of, relating to, or being intellectual as contrasted with overt physical activity.

      • 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children’s brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:

        Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

    3. Occurring or experienced in the mind.

      • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “The Unexpected”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 240:

        I don’t mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […], the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!

      Synonym: inner
    4. Relating to the mind, its activity, or its products as an object of study.

      mental science

      Synonym: ideological
    5. Relating to spirit or idea as opposed to matter.

      the distinction between physical things and mental ideas

  2. Of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder.

    a mental patient

    1. (relational) Intended for the care or treatment of persons affected by psychiatric disorders.

      mental hospitals

    2. (colloquial, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, dated in the US, comparable) Mentally disordered; insane, mad, crazy.

      He is the most mental freshman I’ve seen yet.

      He went mental on us.

  3. (colloquial, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, comparable) Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way.

    That was a mental party last night.

  4. Of or relating to telepathic or mind-reading powers.

    mental telepathy

Derived terms[edit]
  • amental
  • bimental
  • extramental
  • go mental
  • inframental
  • intermental
  • intramental
  • mental aberration
  • mental age
  • mental asylum
  • mental block
  • mental breakdown
  • mental case
  • mental disease
  • mental disorder
  • mental gymnast
  • mental gymnastics
  • mental health
  • mental home
  • mental hospital
  • mental hygiene
  • mental illness
  • mental institution
  • mental masturbation
  • mental mediumship
  • mental midget
  • mental patient
  • mental reservation
  • mental retardation
  • mentalese
  • mentalism
  • mentalist
  • mentality
  • mentalize, mentalise
  • mentally
  • neuromental
  • nonmental
  • physico-mental
  • physiomental
  • psychomental
  • supramental
Translations[edit]

relating to the mind

  • Arabic: عَقْلِيّ‎ (ar) (ʕaqliyy)
  • Asturian: mental
  • Bengali: মানসিক (bn) (manôśik)
  • Bulgarian: умствен (bg) (umstven), мисловен (bg) (misloven)
  • Catalan: mental (ca)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 心理的 (zh) (xīnlǐ de), 精神的 (zh) (jīngshén de)
  • Czech: duševní (cs)
  • Dutch: geestelijk (nl), mentaal (nl)
  • Esperanto: mensa (eo), psika, psiĥa
  • Finnish: henkinen (fi), mentaalinen (fi), psyykkinen (fi), mieli-
  • French: mental (fr)
  • Galician: mental (gl)
  • Georgian: გონებრივი (gonebrivi), მენტალური (menṭaluri)
  • German: geistig (de), mental (de), psychisch (de), seelisch (de)
  • Greek: διανοητικός (el) m (dianoïtikós), πνευματικός (el) m (pnevmatikós), νοητικός (el) m (noïtikós)
  • Haitian Creole: mantal
  • Hindi: मानसिक (hi) (mānsik)
  • Hungarian: mentális (hu), lelki (hu), értelmi (hu), szellemi (hu), elmebeli (hu), elme-
  • Indonesian: mental (id)
  • Italian: mentale (it)
  • Japanese: 心の (こころの, kokoro no), 精神的 (ja) (せいしんてき, seishinteki)
  • Kazakh: психикалық (psixikalyq)
  • Korean: 정신의 (jeongsinui)
  • Occitan: mental (oc)
  • Polish: psychiczny (pl), umysłowy (pl), mentalny (pl)
  • Portuguese: mental (pt)
  • Romanian: mintal (ro), mental (ro) m or n
  • Russian: у́мственный (ru) (úmstvennyj)
  • Sanskrit: मानस (sa) (mānasa)
  • Serbo-Croatian: duševan (sh)
  • Spanish: mental (es)
  • Swedish: själslig (sv), psykisk (sv)
  • Tagalog: isipnin
  • Telugu: మానసికమైన (mānasikamaina)
  • Turkish: mental (tr), zihinsel (tr)
  • Ukrainian: розумо́вий (rozumóvyj), ми́слений (mýslenyj)
  • Volapük: tikälik (vo)

Etymology 2[edit]

c. 1727, from Latin mentum (“the chin”) +‎ -al.

Adjective[edit]

mental (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy, relational) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
    Synonyms: genial, genian

    the mental nerve, the mental region

  2. (biology, relational) Of or relating to the chinlike or liplike structure.
Derived terms[edit]
  • basilomental
  • cardosubmental
  • cervicomental
  • corneomental
  • frontomental
  • gulamental
  • hyomental
  • inframental
  • labiomental
  • mental artery
  • mental foramen
  • mental nerve
  • mental protuberance
  • nasomental
  • occipitomental
  • palmomental
  • pollicomental
  • postmental
  • premental
  • sternomental
  • submental
  • thyromental
  • verticomental
Translations[edit]

relating to the chin

  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 頦的／颏的 (zh) (kē de, (Taiwan) hái de)
  • Esperanto: mentona
  • Greek: πωγωνικός m (pogonikós), γενειακός m (geneiakós)
  • Italian: mentale (it), mentoniero (it), genieno
  • Volapük: cünik

Noun[edit]

mental (plural mentals)

  1. (zootomy) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.

References[edit]

  • “mental”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “mental”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Further reading[edit]

  • mental in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • “mental”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams[edit]

  • Lament., Mantle, lament, manlet, mantel, mantle

Asturian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin mentālis from Latin mēns; equivalent to mente +‎ -al.

Adjective[edit]

mental (epicene, plural mentales)

  1. mental

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  • mente

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns; equivalent to ment +‎ -al.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /mənˈtal/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /menˈtal/

Adjective[edit]

mental (masculine and feminine plural mentals)

  1. mental

Derived terms[edit]

  • mentalitat
  • mentalment

[edit]

  • ment

Further reading[edit]

  • “mental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “mental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
  • “mental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “mental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cebuano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of English mental hospital.

Noun[edit]

mental

  1. mental hospital.

Verb[edit]

mental

  1. to send or commit to a mental hospital

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Late Latin mentālis (“of the mind, mental”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mɑ̃.tal/

Adjective[edit]

mental (feminine mentale, masculine plural mentaux, feminine plural mentales)

  1. (relational) mind; mental

Derived terms[edit]

  • carte mentale
  • malade mental
  • malade mentale
  • maladie mentale
  • mentalement

Descendants[edit]

  • Haitian Creole: mantal
  • → Turkish: mantal

Noun[edit]

mental m (uncountable)

  1. mind
    Elle a un mental d’acier. ― She has a mind of steel.

Further reading[edit]

  • “mental”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams[edit]

  • lament, mêlant

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns; equivalent to mente +‎ -al.

Adjective[edit]

mental m or f (plural mentais)

  1. mental

Derived terms[edit]

  • mentalmente

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  • mente

German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin mentālis.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [mɛnˈtaːl]
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective[edit]

mental (strong nominative masculine singular mentaler, not comparable)

  1. mental

Declension[edit]

Positive forms of mental (uncomparable)

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Dutch mentaal, from Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis (“of the mind, mental”), from Latin mēns (“the mind”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛntal]
  • Hyphenation: mèn‧tal

Adjective[edit]

mental

  1. mental: of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.

Noun[edit]

mental

  1. mind.
    Synonyms: batin, watak

[edit]

  • mentalitas

Etymology 2[edit]

From Betawi mental. Doublet of pental.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [mənˈtal]
  • Hyphenation: men‧tal

Verb[edit]

mêntal

  1. to bounce off
    Synonyms: terpelanting, terpental
  2. to backfire

Etymology 3[edit]

From Sundanese mental.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [mənˈtal]
  • Hyphenation: men‧tal

Adjective[edit]

mêntal

  1. useless.

Further reading[edit]

  • “mental” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin mentalis, from mens.

Adjective[edit]

mental (neuter singular mentalt, definite singular and plural mentale)

  1. mental

References[edit]

  • “mental” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin mentalis, from mens.

Adjective[edit]

mental (neuter singular mentalt, definite singular and plural mentale)

  1. mental

References[edit]

  • “mental” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns. By surface analysis, mente +‎ -al.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /mẽˈtaw/ [mẽˈtaʊ̯]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /mẽˈtal/ [mẽˈtaɫ]
  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: men‧tal

Adjective[edit]

mental m or f (plural mentais, not comparable)

  1. mental

Derived terms[edit]

  • mentalmente

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  • mente

Romanian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

mental m or n (feminine singular mentală, masculine plural mentali, feminine and neuter plural mentale)

  1. Alternative form of mintal

Declension[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns; equivalent to mente +‎ -al.

Adjective[edit]

mental (plural mentales)

  1. mental

Derived terms[edit]

  • anorexia mental
  • mentalmente
  • paja mental
  • retrasado mental
  • salud mental
  • trastorno mental

[edit]

  • mentalidad
  • mente

Further reading[edit]

  • “mental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Late Latin mentalis, from Latin mens.

Adjective[edit]

mental

  1. mental, pertaining to the mind

Declension[edit]

Inflection of mental
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular mental — —
Neuter singular mentalt — —
Plural mentala — —
Masculine plural3 mentale — —
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 mentale — —
All mentala — —
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

[edit]

  • mentalpatient
  • mentalsjuk
  • mentalsjukhus

Anagrams[edit]

  • mantel

Tagalog[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: men‧tal
  • IPA(key): /ˈmental/, [ˈmen.tɐl]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English mental.

Adjective[edit]

mental

  1. mental

Etymology 2[edit]

Clipped form of English mental hospital.

Noun[edit]

mental

  1. mental hospital
[edit]
  • mentalidad

Further reading[edit]

  • “mental”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
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The adjective mental describes anything having to do with the mind, just as «physical» has to do with the body. Mental has to do with the intellect, the mind, or the brain.

There’s a history of mental illness in that family, which is interesting because physically they’re all so amazing. Makes you wonder why they did so well in one department but not the other. Some argue that standardized tests are no measure of your mental abilities. All they do is tell you how well you did on the test. That would be like testing your emotional depth based on how tightly you hug people. A person’s mental gifts are difficult to measure.

Definitions of mental

  1. adjective

    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”

    Synonyms:

    intellectual, noetic, rational

    of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

    moral

    psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect

    psychic, psychical

    affecting or influenced by the human mind

    psychogenic

    mental or emotional rather than physiological in origin

    psychological

    mental or emotional as opposed to physical in nature

  2. adjective

    of or relating to the mind

    “mental powers”

    “mental development”

    “mental hygiene”

  3. adjective

    affected by a disorder of the mind

    “a
    mental patient”

    “mental illness”

    Synonyms:

    unhealthy

    not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind

  4. adjective

    of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw

  5. adjective

    of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks

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mental
I

1. ненормальный, псих

2.

умственные способности

1. умственный

mental age — умственное развитие, соотносимое с возрастом

mental deficiency /handicap/ — умственная отсталость; слабоумие

mental defectives /deficients/ — умственно отсталые /дефективные/ (дети)

mental powers — умственные способности

mental retardation — задержка умственного развития

mental test — проверка умственных способностей

mental work — умственная работа, умственный труд

mental process — умственная деятельность

in the mental sphere — в сфере умственной деятельности /жизни/

our mental construction — устройство нашего ума

to wear mental blinkers — мыслить прямолинейно /ограниченно/

2. производимый в уме, мысленный

mental arithmetic — счёт в уме, устный счёт

mental reservation — мысленная оговорка

he made a mental note of the number — он отметил /зафиксировал/ номер в уме

3. психический, душевный

mental disease /alienation, illness/ — душевная болезнь

mental health — душевное здоровье

mental hospital /home/ — психиатрическая лечебница /больница/

mental patient /case/ — душевнобольной

mental specialist — психиатр

mental healing — лечение внушением

he’s mental — он спятил /рехнулся/

II
[mentl]

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Новый большой англо-русский словарь.
2001.

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  • mental — mental …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

  • mental — mental, ale, aux [ mɑ̃tal, o ] adj. • mentel 1371; bas lat. mentalis, de mens, mentis « esprit » 1 ♦ Qui se fait dans l esprit seulement, sans expression orale ou écrite. Opérations mentales. Calcul mental. Lecture mentale. Restriction mentale. 2 …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • mental — mental, intellectual, psychic, intelligent, cerebral can mean of, relating to, or characteristic of that sum total of powers or functions called variously mind, intellect, soul, psyche, or brain (compare MIND 2). In general mental applies… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • mental — (Del b. lat. mentālis). adj. Perteneciente o relativo a la mente. ☛ V. cacao mental, deficiencia mental, diarrea mental, edad mental, empanada mental, enajenación mental, enano mental, oración mental, reserva mental, restricción mental, trastorno …   Diccionario de la lengua española

  • mental — adjetivo 1. De la mente: cálculo mental, actividad mental. empanada* mental. enajenación* mental. enfermedad mental. perturbación mental. reserva* mental. retrasado* mental. trastorno mental …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

  • mental — mental1 [ment′ l] adj. [ME < MFr < LL mentalis < L mens (gen. mentis), MIND] 1. of or for the mind or intellect [mental powers, mental aids] 2. done by, or carried on in, the mind (i.e., without using written symbols) [mental arithmetic] …   English World dictionary

  • 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. [1913 Webster] What a mental power This eye… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • mental — Adj geistig erw. fremd. Erkennbar fremd (18. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. mental, dieses aus ml. mentalis, zu l. mēns ( ntis) Sinn, Denkart, Verstand, Geist . Abstraktum: Mentalität.    Ebenso nndl. mentaal, ne. mental, nfrz. mental, nschw.… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • mental — mental, ale 1. (man tal, ta l ) adj. 1°   Qui se fait dans l esprit. •   Il suppose que l esprit fait des propositions mentales dans lesquelles il joint ou sépare les idées sans l intervention des mots, CONDILLAC Conn. hum. IV, 2.    L oraison… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d’Émile Littré

  • mental — MENTÁL, Ă, adj. v. mintal. Trimis de LauraGellner, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98  mentál adj. m., pl. mentáli; f. sg. mentálă, pl. mentále …   Dicționar Român

  • Mental — Mental, a word referring to aspects of, or things related to, the mind; or in anatomy, the skull, e.g. the mental foramen, can also mean: a slang, pejorative term used to describe people who act like lunatics, which is itself an outdated term for …   Wikipedia

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  • Defenition of the word mental

    • Of or pertaining to the soul.
    • Related to the mental or spiritual condition as opposed to the bodily or exterior phenomena.
    • of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw
    • affected by a disorder of the mind; «a mental patient»; «mental illness»
    • 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»
    • (biology) of or relating to the chin- or lip-like structure in insects and certain mollusks
    • of or relating to the mind; «mental powers»; «mental development»; «mental hygiene»
    • of or relating to the chin- or lip-like structure in insects and certain mollusks
    • affected by a disorder of the mind
    • involving the mind or an intellectual process
    • of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks
    • of or relating to the mind

Synonyms for the word mental

    • genial

Similar words in the mental

    • intellectual
    • moral
    • noetic
    • psychic
    • psychical
    • psychogenic
    • psychological
    • rational
    • unhealthy

Antonyms for the word mental

    • physical

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WordReference Random House Learner’s Dictionary of American English © 2023

men•tal1 /ˈmɛntəl/USA pronunciation  
adj. [before a noun]

  1. of or relating to the mind:mental capacity; mental arithmetic.
  2. Psychiatryof or relating to a disorder of the mind:a mental patient.
  3. Psychiatryfor persons with such a disorder:a mental institution.
  4. Informal Termsinsane;
    crazy:a real mental case.

men•tal•ly, adv. : tried to compute the odds mentally.See -men-.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2023

men•tal1 
(men′tl),USA pronunciation adj. 

  1. of or pertaining to the mind:mental powers; mental suffering.
  2. Psychiatryof, pertaining to, or affected by a disorder of the mind:a mental patient; mental illness.
  3. Psychiatryproviding care for persons with disordered minds, emotions, etc.:a mental hospital.
  4. performed by or existing in the mind:mental arithmetic; a mental note.
  5. pertaining to intellectuals or intellectual activity.
  6. Informal Termsslightly daft;
    out of one’s mind;
    crazy:He’s mental.

n.

  1. Informal Termsa person with a psychological disorder:a fascist group made up largely of mentals.
  • Late Latin mentālis, equivalent. to Latin ment- (stem of mēns) mind + -ālis —al1
  • late Middle English 1375–1425

men•tal2 
(men′tl),USA pronunciation adj. 

  1. of or pertaining to the chin.
  • Latin ment(um) the chin (see mentum) + —al1
  • 1720–30

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

mental /ˈmɛntəl/ adj

  1. of or involving the mind or an intellectual process
  2. occurring only in the mind: mental calculations
  3. affected by mental illness: a mental patient
  4. concerned with care for persons with mental illness: a mental hospital
  5. slang insane

Etymology: 15th Century: from Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns mind

ˈmentally adv

‘mental‘ also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

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1 

a 

:

of or relating to the mind

  • mental abilities

  • She was worried about her son’s mental and physical development.

  • the mental state/condition of a criminal

  • mental health

b 

:

existing or happening in the mind

  • We had a mental image/picture of what we thought the house would look like.

  • I’ve got a mental list of the things I need at the store.

  • I’ll make a mental note to see if we can reschedule the meeting.

  • mental arithmetic [=arithmetic done in your mind without writing numbers or using a calculator]

2 

always used before a noun

a 

:

relating to or affected by an illness of the mind

  • She was beginning to show signs of mental illness.

  • a mental disorder

  • He suffered a mental breakdown.

  • a mental patient

b 

:

caring for people with mental illnesses

  • mental hospitals

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Meaning of MENTAL in English

[men.tal] adj [ME, fr. MF, fr. LL mentalis, fr. L ment-, mens mind—more at mind] (15c) 1 a: of or relating to the mind; specif: of or relating to the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality «~ health» b: of or relating to intellectual as contrasted with emotional activity c: of, relating to, or being intellectual as contrasted with overt physical activity d: occurring or experienced in the mind: inner «~ anguish» e: relating to the mind, its activity, or its products as an object of study: ideological f: relating to spirit or idea as opposed to matter

2. a (1): of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder «a ~ patient» «~ illness» (2): mentally disordered: mad, crazy b: intended for the care or treatment of persons affected by psychiatric disorders «~ hospitals»

3: of or relating to telepathic or mind-reading powers — men.tal.ly adv

[2]mental adj [L mentum chin—more at mouth] (ca. 1727): of or relating to the chin: genial


Merriam-Webster English vocab.

     Английский словарь Merriam Webster.
2012

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