Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - mental

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Mental means relating to the process of thinking. ...the mental development of children. ...intensive mental effort. ADJ: ADJ n • mentally I think you are mentally tired... Physically I might not have been overseas but mentally and spiritually I was with them. ADV: ADV adj/adv, ADV with v, ADV with cl 2. Mental means relating to the state or the health of a person’s mind. The mental state that had created her psychosis was no longer present. ...mental health problems. ADJ: ADJ n • mentally ...an inmate who is mentally disturbed. ...the needs of the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped. ADV: usu ADV with cl/group, also ADV after v 3. A mental act is one that involves only thinking and not physical action. Practise mental arithmetic when you go out shopping... ADJ: ADJ n • mentally This technique will help people mentally organize information. ADV: ADV with v 4. If you say that someone is mental, you mean that you think they are mad. (BRIT INFORMAL) I just said to him ‘you must be mental’. = crazy, mad ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval 5. If you make a mental note of something, you make an effort to store it in your memory so that you will not forget it. She made a mental note to have his prescription refilled. PHRASE: V inflects, PHR of n, PHR to-inf