MENTAL CASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mental case mean? 

• MENTAL CASE (noun)
  The noun MENTAL CASE has 1 sense:

1. a person suffering from neurosis

  Familiarity information: MENTAL CASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENTAL CASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person suffering from neurosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

mental case; neurotic; psychoneurotic

Hypernyms ("mental case" is a kind of...):

diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental case"):

claustrophobe (a person suffering from claustrophobia)

hysteric (a person suffering from hysteria)

obsessive (a person who has obsessions)

obsessive-compulsive (a person with obsessive-compulsive characteristics)

psychopath; sociopath (someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder ('psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by 'sociopath'))