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say it: MEN-tuhl
mental is an adjective meaning "involving the mind or an intellectual process". It carries 5 recorded senses.
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”
of or relating to the mind
“mental powers”
“mental development”
“mental hygiene”
of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks
biology
of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mental come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.