Mental
['ment(ə)l] or ['mɛntl]
Definition
(adj.) affected by a disorder of the mind; 'a mental patient'; 'mental illness' .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks .
(adj.) of or relating to the mind; 'mental powers'; 'mental development'; 'mental hygiene' .
Typist: Naomi--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.
(n.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as, mental faculties; mental operations, conditions, or exercise.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Intellectual, spiritual, rational, ideal, subjective, psychological, metaphysical.
Editor: Monica
Definition
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.
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Examples
- To talk about training a power, mental or physical, in general, apart from the subject matter involved in its exercise, is nonsense. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Let no one suppose that the unwillingness to cultivate what Mr. Wells calls the mental hinterland is a vice peculiar to the business man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We have applied this test to three general aims: Development according to nature, social efficiency, and culture or personal mental enrichment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Wilfer generally seemed to say to himself, after a little mental arithmetic, 'Oh! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Most of its motives are purely instinctive, and all the mental life that it has is the result of heredity (birth inheritance). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such sudden alternations from mental vacuity do sometimes occur thus quietly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I do not know that my mental faculties are impaired. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- At this dreadful reflection, Mrs. Nupkins wept mental anguish, and Miss Nupkins followed on the same side. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I may here premise, that I have nothing to do with the origin of the mental powers, any more than I have with that of life itself. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Many cases are on record where the mental life is a lmost exclusively in visual, in auditory, or in motor terms. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A certain mental disorder became perceptible in Robespierre as the summer of 1794 drew on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the other hand, Galton, after his classical study of mental imagery (1883), stated that scientific men, as a class, have feeble powers of visual representat ion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- You don't want to BE an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, to get a mental thrill out of them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The history of the last half century is not to be understood without an understanding of the mental twist which this story exemplifies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Any mental activity but their own struck them as being insolent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With so much time to talk, and no definite object to be led up to, she could taste the rare joys of mental vagrancy. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was harsh, it was shocking, even as applied to the most hardened sinner, in such a state of mental and bodily suffering. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I think it a case of spectral illusion: I fear, following on and resulting from long-continued mental conflict. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A visual image, or mental picture, is popularly taken as characteristic of the imaginative process. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The Fellows recognized that the mental powers a re raised to a higher degree in company than in solitude. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- My behavior has a mental quality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Can't make this fellow out, was his mental comment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Besides, Edison, like Faraday, was never a mathematician, and has had little personal use for arithmetic beyond that which is called mental. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Their mental life is sentimental; an enjoyment of an inner landscape. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Mental suffering and trial supply, in some natures, the place of years, and I will be as plain with you as if I were a Lady Abbess. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A mental problem was involved here. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He sums up his mental condition when asked a question by replying that he don't know nothink. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Different, indeed, she concluded, is Robert's mental condition to mine. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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