psychiatric

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: sī'-ki-ătʹ-rĭk, IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/
• Rhymes: -ætɹɪk
• Hyphenation: psy‧chi‧at‧ric

Adjective

psychiatric (not comparable)

1. Of, or relating to, psychiatry.
   • 1999, Ridha Arem, The Thyroid Solution, →ISBN, page 216:

     Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.

Derived terms

• 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

of, or relating to, psychiatry

• Asturian: siquiátricu
• Belarusian: псіхіятры́чны (psixijatrýčny)
• Bulgarian: психиатричен (psihiatričen)
• Catalan: psiquiàtric
• Czech: psychiatrický (cs)
• Danish: psykiatrisk
• Dutch: psychiatrisch (nl)
• Estonian: psühhiaatriline
• Finnish: psykiatrinen (fi)
• French: psychiatrique (fr)
• Galician: psiquiátrico (gl)
• German: psychiatrisch (de)
• Greek: ψυχιατρικός (el) (psychiatrikós)
• Hungarian: pszichiátriai (hu)
• Ido: psikiatriala
• Interlingua: psychiatric
• Italian: psichiatrico (it)
• Kazakh: психиатриялық (psixiatriälyq)
• Latvian: psihiatrisks
• Polish: psychiatryczny (pl)
• Portuguese: psiquiátrico (pt)
• Russian: психиатри́ческий (ru) (psixiatríčeskij)
• Spanish: psiquiátrico (es)
• Swedish: psykiatrisk (sv)
• Turkish: psikiyatrik
• Ukrainian: психіатри́чний (psyxiatrýčnyj)

Noun

psychiatric (plural psychiatrics)

1. (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

Adjective

psychiatric (not comparable)

1. psychiatric