psychiatric
English edit
Etymology edit
From psychiatry + -ic or psych- + -iatric.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
psychiatric (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to, psychiatry.
Derived terms edit
- antipsychiatric
- biopsychiatric
- chemopsychiatric
- ecopsychiatric
- ethnopsychiatric
- gerontopsychiatric
- geropsychiatric
- immunopsychiatric
- medicopsychiatric
- neuropsychiatric
- nonpsychiatric
- orthopsychiatric
- pedopsychiatric
- postpsychiatric
- psychiatrically
- psychiatric deluge
- psychiatric hospital
- psychiatric nurse
- psychiatric ward
- telepsychiatric
- unpsychiatric
Translations edit
of, or relating to, psychiatry
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Noun edit
psychiatric (plural psychiatrics)
- (dated) A person who has a psychiatric disorder.
- 1954, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, page 907:
- They are the tuberculars, the psychiatrics, and the older men suffering from chronic conditions. All of those men are totally disabled.
Interlingua edit
Adjective edit
psychiatric (not comparable)