mind game
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.24 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An attempt at using psychological manipulation against someone, in order to confuse them.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Denmark coach Morten Olsen's pre-match warning that the Netherlands were simply better than his side could easily have been dismissed as mind games."
- "Your mind games hit like grenades"
- "Years later, [Demis] Hassabis compared [Peter] Molyneux to the mysterious character in The Magus, a novel by John Fowles. The magus is manipulative, mendacious, a master of illusions and mind games."
- "The crosswords and mind games are my favourite part of the newspaper."
- "But to the surprise of many in the chess fraternity, [Demis] Hassabis also began to compete in other mind games: bridge and backgammon, Diplomacy and draughts, as well as the Japanese chess variant shogi."