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mental
What does mental mean?
mental (adjective): of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use mental in a sentence?
How do you pronounce mental?
/ˈmɛntəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does mental come from?
Borrowed from Middle French mental, a learned borrowing from Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns (“mind”) + -ālis (adjectival suffix).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are antonyms of mental?
Words related to mental
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “mental” mean?
capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released
Not quite: that's what elastic means.
being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
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of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality
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having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive
Not quite: that's what decisive means.
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