Borrowing fromMiddle French mental Late Latin mentālis mēns ( “ mind, disposition; heart, soul ” ) +-ālis ( “ -al ” ,adjectival suffix ) .
mental (comparative moremental ,superlative mostmental )
( relational ) mind or specifically the totalemotional andintellectual response of anindividual toexternal reality .Of or relating tointellectual ascontrasted withemotional activity.mental acuity
Of, relating to, or beingintellectual ascontrasted withovert physical activity.2013 July 19,Ian Sample , “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains ”, inThe Guardian Weekly 189 , number 6, page34 :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 onmental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
Occurring orexperienced in themind .1907 Robert W[illiam] Chambers , “The Unexpected”, inThe Younger Set , New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company ,→OCLC page240 :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, [ …] mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!
Synonym: inner Relating to themind , itsactivity , or itsproducts as an object ofstudy .mental science
Synonym: ideological Relating tospirit oridea as opposed tomatter . Of, relating to, or affected by apsychiatric disorder .amental patient
( relational ) Intended for thecare ortreatment of persons affected bypsychiatric disorders .mental hospitals
( colloquial , UK , Ireland , Australia , New Zealand , dated in the US , Canada , comparable ) Mentally disordered ;insane ,mad ,crazy .He is the mostmental freshman I've seen yet.
He wentmental on us.
( colloquial , UK , Ireland , Australia , New Zealand , comparable ) Enjoyable orfun , especially in afrenetic way.That was amental party last night.
Of or relating totelepathic ormind-reading powers.mental telepathy
relating to the mind
Arabic:عَقْلِيّ (ar) ( ʕaqliyy ) Asturian:mental Bengali:মানসিক (bn) ( manośik ) 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)
relating to a crazy person
mental (plural mentals
( slang ) State of mind ellipsis ofmental state y'all need to fix yourmentals c. 1727 , fromLatin mentum ( “ the chin ” ) +-al
mental (notcomparable )
( anatomy , relational ) chin ormedian part of the lowerjaw ,genial .Synonyms: genial genian themental nerve, themental region
( biology , relational ) chinlike orliplike structure .mental (plural mentals
( zootomy ) plate orscale covering thementum orchin of afish orreptile .“mental ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “mental ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. ,→OCLC FromLate Latin mentālis Latin mēns mente -al
IPA (key ) : /menˈtal/ [mẽn̪ˈt̪al] Rhymes:-al Syllabification:men‧tal mental (epicene plural mentales
mental Borrowed fromLate Latin mentālis Latin mēns ment -al
mental m or f masculine and feminine plural mentals
mental Clipping ofEnglish mental hospital
mental
mental hospital mental
tosend orcommit to amental hospital Learned borrowing fromLate Latin mentālis ( “ of the mind, mental ” ) .
mental (feminine mentale masculine plural mentaux feminine plural mentales
( relational ) mind ;mental mental m uncountable
mind Elle a unmental d’acier. ―She has amind of steel. FromLate Latin mentālis Latin mēns mente -al
IPA (key ) : /menˈtal/ [mẽn̪ˈt̪ɑɫ] IPA (key ) : /mɛnˈtal/ [mɛ̃n̪ˈt̪ɑɫ] Rhymes:-al Hyphenation:men‧tal mental m or f plural mentais
mental “mental ” inDIGALEGO - Dicionario de Galego , Ir Indo 2004, Xunta de Galicia 2013. “mental ”, inDicionario da Real Academia Galega Royal Galician Academy ,2012 –2025 Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández ,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “mental ”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Borrowed fromLatin mentālis
mental (strong nominative masculine singular mentaler not comparable )
mental Positive forms ofmental (uncomparable )
FromDutch mentaal Middle French mental Late Latin mentālis ( “ of the mind, mental ” ) , fromLatin mēns ( “ the mind ” ) .
IPA (key ) : [ˈmɛntal] Hyphenation:mèn‧tal mental
mental mental (plural mental -mental
mind Synonyms: batin watak FromBetawi mental Doublet ofpental
IPA (key ) : [mənˈtal] Hyphenation:men‧tal mental
tobounce offSynonyms: terpelanting terpental tobackfire FromSundanese mental
IPA (key ) : [mənˈtal] Hyphenation:men‧tal mental
useless Borrowed fromLatin mentalis mens
mental (neuter singular mentalt definite singular and plural mentale
mental Borrowed fromLatin mentalis mens
mental (neuter singular mentalt definite singular and plural mentale
mental Frommedal
mental m inan
( Far Masovian ) Alternative form ofmedal Frommotyl
mental m animal
( Far Masovian ) Alternative form ofmotyl Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894 ) “mental Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page114 Borrowed fromLate Latin mentālis Latin mēns surface analysis ,mente -al
Rhymes:( Portugal ) -al ( Brazil ) -aw Hyphenation:men‧tal mental m or f plural mentais notcomparable )
mental mental m or n feminine singular mentală masculine plural mentali feminine and neuter plural mentale
Alternative form ofmintal Borrowed fromLate Latin mentālis Latin mēns mente -al
IPA (key ) : /menˈtal/ [mẽn̪ˈt̪al] Rhymes:-al Syllabification:men‧tal mental m or f masculine and feminine plural mentales
mental Borrowed fromLate Latin mentalis Latin mens
mental
mental mind Inflection ofmental Indefinite positive comparative superlative1 common singular mental — — neuter singular mentalt — — plural mentala — — masculine plural2 mentale — — Definite positive comparative superlative masculine singular3 mentale — — all mentala — —
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.2 Dated or archaic.3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
Borrowed fromEnglish mental
mental (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜎ᜔
mental Ellipsis ofEnglish mental hospital
mental (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜎ᜔
mental hospital Synonym: manikomyo “mental ”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph , Manila,2018 
