Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

psychiatric

/ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English

Syllables: psy-chi-at-ric
IPA: /ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/

23

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, or relating to, psychiatry.

noun

A person who has a psychiatric disorder.

Dated

Example Sentences

"Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy."
"They are the tuberculars, the psychiatrics, and the older men suffering from chronic conditions. All of those men are totally disabled."

Etymology

From psychiatry + -ic or psych- + -iatric.

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

psychiatrics (plural)

Derived Forms

antipsychiatric biopsychiatric chemopsychiatric ecopsychiatric ethnopsychiatric gerontopsychiatric geropsychiatric immunopsychiatric medicopsychiatric neuropsychiatric nonpsychiatric orthopsychiatric

Phrases

psychiatric deluge psychiatric hospital psychiatric nurse psychiatric ward

Synonyms

psychiatrical

Rhymes With

patrick pediatric fitzpatrick geriatric kirkpatrick kilpatrick hat trick saint patrick

Questions

How do you pronounce psychiatric?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/.
What does psychiatric mean?: Of, or relating to, psychiatry.
Where does psychiatric come from?: From psychiatry + -ic or psych- + -iatric.

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