mental case

Questions about mental case

What does mental case mean?

mental case means "a person suffering from neurosis".

What is another word for mental case?

Close synonyms include neurotic, psychoneurotic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mental case a common word?

mental case is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.