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psychological

/ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kl̩/US/ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/

psychological adjective: of or pertaining to psychology.

Adjective

psychological (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to psychology.
    • An inkblot test is a method of psychological evaluation.
  2. Relating to the mind and behavior or to the mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
    • I'm concerned about their psychological well-being.
    • The film was a dark psychological thriller.
  3. Without an objective, or reasonably logical foundation.
    • Prices seem to have stopped rising, having hit the psychological ceiling of just under 100 dollars.

psychological meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

psychological in Hindi

of or pertaining to psychology
मनोवैज्ञानिक manovaijñānik

psychological in Urdu

نفسیاتی

psychological in Bengali

মনস্তত্ত্বিক

psychological in Malayalam

emotional, mental, intellectual
മനഃസംബന്ധിയായ, മനശാസ്ത്രവിഷയകമായ, മനോവിജ്ഞാനീ യമായ, മാനസ, മാനസിക, മനസ്സിനെസംബന്ധിച്ച
psychosomatic, (all) in the mind, emotional
മാനസ, മാനസിക, മനസ്സി തോന്നലായ, മനസ്സിലുള്ള, മനസിജ, വെെകാരിക
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psychological in Kannada
ಮಾನಸಿಕ, ಮನೋವಿಜ್ಞಾನದ, ಮನೋವೈಜ್ಞಾನಿಕ
psychological in Tagalog
dalub-isipin
psychological in Malay
psikologikal
psychological in Indonesian
psikologis

Examples of psychological in a sentence

  • Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.
  • Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm.
  • The counselor was able to reach the disturbed teen through positive psychological manipulation.

All 40 example sentences with psychological

Origin of psychological

From psychology + -ical.

Words formed from psychological

Phrases with psychological

Questions about psychological

What does psychological mean?
Psychological means of or pertaining to psychology.
What is psychological in Hindi?
Psychological in Hindi is मनोवैज्ञानिक (manovaijñānik). See Psychological meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is psychological?
Psychological is an adjective.
How do you pronounce psychological?
Psychological is pronounced /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kl̩/ (UK).

Words near psychological in the dictionary

  1. psychologers
  2. psychologese
  3. psychologian
  4. psychologians
  5. psychologic
  6. psychological
  7. psychological autopsies
  8. psychological autopsy
  9. psychological crises
  10. psychological crisis
  11. psychological hedonism

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: psychological (page history and authors); psychological (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); psychological (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); psychological (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); psychological (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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