Psych

/saɪk/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) Psychology or psychiatry..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Psychology or psychiatry.
2. (countable) A psychologist; a psychiatrist.
3. A psychiatric hospital; psychiatric treatment.
4. Psychedelic.
5. Psychiatric.
6. (transitive, reflexive) To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up).
7. (transitive) To intimidate (someone) emotionally or using psychology (also psych out).
8. (transitive) To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.

Example Sentences

I took psych my freshman year in university.

She had attended a conference of psychs at which he had presided and they had taken a fancy to each other.

A fool who had never seen reality would think an old lady is harmless or weak. Perhaps the morons in the outside world believe an old lady locked-up in psych is akin to a sweet little grandmother, a poor old dear who is just a little confused.

“I couldn’t stay in the psych. I had to get out, before Rudolf got to me. He is alive; he set me up,” I tell him, looking around, and trying to figure out why I’m not in prison or at the police station.

I still stood by my assessment that she should’ve checked into psych. Body dysmorphia was one thing but actually believing Barbie was a real person walking among us? That was a little too much.

curtains with psych colors

a psych band; a psych album; psych-rock and psych-folk music

involuntarily committed to the psych ward

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Word Forms

• psychs
• sike
• syke
• more psych
• most psych
• psyching
• psyched

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