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mentalist

mentalist adjective: of or relating to mentalism.

Adjective

mentalist (comparative more mentalist, superlative most mentalist)

  1. Of or relating to mentalism

Noun

mentalist (plural mentalists)

  1. A practitioner of mentalism.
  2. (UK, slang) An insane person.
    • Jed Maxwell: See you next week then. We'll have that pint.
      Alan Partridge: Yep.
      Jed Maxwell: ...go and see my brother.
      Alan Partridge: No way, you big spastic! You're a mentalist!1997, I'm Alan Partridge (TV series), To Kill a Mocking Alan
    • In front a staff sergeant with the new Royal Caledonians was gassing about Scullion and the regiment. 'And this major's a total fucking mentalist,' he said. 'What's mental about him?' asked the lance corporal beside him.2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 39

mentalist meaning in Tamil

mentalist in Tamil

மனதின் சக்திகளைப் பயன்படுத்துபவர், பிறர் மனதில் உள்ளதைக் கண்டுபிடிப்பவர்

Forms of mentalist

Adjective
comparativemore mentalist
superlativemost mentalist
Noun
pluralmentalists

Origin of mentalist

From mental + -ist.

Words formed from mentalist

Questions about mentalist

What does mentalist mean?
Mentalist means of or relating to mentalism.
What is mentalist in Tamil?
Mentalist in Tamil is மனதின் சக்திகளைப் பயன்படுத்துபவர், பிறர் மனதில் உள்ளதைக் கண்டுபிடிப்பவர். See Mentalist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mentalist?
Mentalist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near mentalist in the dictionary

  1. mentalised
  2. mentalises
  3. mentalising
  4. mentalism
  5. mentalisms
  6. mentalist
  7. mentalistic
  8. mentalistically
  9. mentalists
  10. mentalities
  11. mentality

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mentalist (page history and authors); mentalist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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