psychological warfare

1. 1.

   the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale

   Synonymswar of nerves

   Broaderwar

Questions about psychological warfare

What does psychological warfare mean?

psychological warfare means "the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale".

What is another word for psychological warfare?

Close synonyms include war of nerves. 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 psychological warfare a common word?

psychological warfare 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.