psychiatrist
/ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/
psychiatrist noun: a medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.
Noun
psychiatrist (plural psychiatrists)
- A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.
- Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: “Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised.”1969 October 10, “Dividend from Viet Nam”, in Time
- Even medical schools seem to have submitted to psychophobia by training psychiatrists almost exclusively as psychopharmacologists instead of as psychotherapists.2000 May 28, Peter Wolson, “A World of Psychophobia”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 10 May 2025
- Synonyms:
- psychiater
psychiatrist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
psychiatrist in Hindi
- doctor specializing in psychiatry
- मनश्चिकित्सक manaścikitsak
psychiatrist in Tamil
- மன நோய் மருத்துவர்
psychiatrist in Bengali
- মনোরোগ বিশেষজ্ঞ
psychiatrist in Malayalam
- psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, shrink
- മനശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞൻ, മനോരോഗചികിത്സകൻ, മനോരോഗചികിത്സാ വിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ, മനോരോഗഗവേഷകൻ, മനഃശാസ്ത്രവിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ, മനോരോഗ വെെദ്യൻ
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- psychiatrist in Kannada
- ಮನೋರೋಗ ವೈದ್ಯ, ಮನೋರೋಗ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸಕ
- psychiatrist in Arabic
- طَبِيب نَفْسَانِيّ ṭabīb nafsāniyy
- psychiatrist in Indonesian
- psikiater
- psychiatrist in Persian
- روانپزشک ravân-pezešk
- psychiatrist in Thai
- จิตแพทย์ jìt-dtà-pɛ̂ɛt
- psychiatrist in Vietnamese
- nhà tâm thần học
Examples of psychiatrist in a sentence
- The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.
- My psychiatrist upped my guanfacine dose since ADHD symptoms have not gotten better.
- Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals counsel clients.
Synonyms of psychiatrist
Forms of psychiatrist
| plural | psychiatrists |
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Origin of psychiatrist
From psychiatry + -ist.
Words formed from psychiatrist
Questions about psychiatrist
- What does psychiatrist mean?
- Psychiatrist means a medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.
- What is psychiatrist in Hindi?
- Psychiatrist in Hindi is मनश्चिकित्सक (manaścikitsak). See Psychiatrist meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is psychiatrist?
- Psychiatrist is a noun.
- How do you pronounce psychiatrist?
- Psychiatrist is pronounced /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/ (US).
- What is the plural of psychiatrist?
- The plural of psychiatrist is psychiatrists.
Words near psychiatrist in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: psychiatrist (page history and authors); psychiatrist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); psychiatrist (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); psychiatrist (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); psychiatrist (Kannada 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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