mental
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmɛntəl/
mental
- Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- “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—!"
- (colloquial, comparable, UK, dated in the US) Insane, mad, crazy.
- He is the most mental freshman I've seen yet.
- He went mental on us.
- (colloquial, UK, comparable) Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way.
- That was a mental party last night.
- French: mental
- German: geistig, mental, psychisch, seelisch
- Italian: mentale
- Portuguese: mental
- Russian: у́мственный
- Spanish: mental
- Italian: pazzo
mental (not comparable)
- (anatomy) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
- Synonyms: genial, genian
- the mental nerve; the mental region
- (biology) Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure.
- Italian: mentale, mentoniero, genieno
mental (plural mentals)
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