mental hospital

Questions about mental hospital

What does mental hospital mean?

mental hospital means "a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person".

What is another word for mental hospital?

Close synonyms include psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum. 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 hospital a common word?

mental hospital 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.