psychiatric hospital

Questions about psychiatric hospital

What does psychiatric hospital mean?

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

What is another word for psychiatric hospital?

Close synonyms include mental 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 psychiatric hospital a common word?

psychiatric 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.