Meaning

3 senses
  1. The human soul, mind, or spirit.

    Psyche, Geist

    душа́dušá, духdux, пси́хикаpsíxika

    пси́хікаpsýxika

  2. The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual.

  3. A small white butterfly, Leptosia nina, family Pieridae, of Asia and Australasia.

More definitions
  • (Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul
  • the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
  • that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason

Examples

54 sentences
  1. Tom is psyched about it.

    Том схвильований через це. — deniko

  2. Tom is psyched.

    Том на взводі. — deniko

    deTom ist verrückt. — Dejo

  3. Tom said that Mary was psyched.

  4. Tom said that he was psyched.

  5. Tom told me he was psyched.

Translations

8 languages
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By meaning 1
the human soul, mind, or spirit:
Русский
By meaning 1
the human soul, mind, or spirit:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the human soul, mind, or spirit:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin psychē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “

Learned borrowing from Latin psychē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”).

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Forms

plural: psyches
Singularpsyche
Pluralpsyches

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life:soul
  • that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason:mindheadbrainnous

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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