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adj
Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Occurring or experienced in the mind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: relational
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Synonyms: inner, psychological
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Relating to the mind, its activity, or its products as an object of study.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: relational
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Of or relating to intellectual as contrasted with emotional activity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: relational
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adj
Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Of, relating to, or being intellectual as contrasted with overt physical activity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: relational
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: ideological
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Relating to spirit or idea as opposed to matter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: relational
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Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder.
Intended for the care or treatment of persons affected by psychiatric disorders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: relational
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adj
Of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder.
Mentally disordered; insane, mad, crazy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, colloquial, comparable, dated
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adj
Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, colloquial, comparable
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adj
Of or relating to telepathic or mind-reading powers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, relational
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
Synonyms: genial, genian
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of or relating to the chinlike or liplike structure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, relational
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
State of mind; ellipsis of mental state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
A mentally challenged person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, offensive
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noun
A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology, zootomy
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
involving the mind or an intellectual process
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: physical
adjective
of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: genial
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adjective
of or relating to the mind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
affected by a disorder of the mind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowing from Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis, from mēns (“mind, disposition; heart, soul”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós Proto-Italic *məntom Latin mentum English -al English mental c. 1727, from Latin mentum (“the chin”) + -al.
Across languages
93 source translations are retained for this English entry.
