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Antonyms for psych
Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : sahyk |
Phonetic Transcription : saɪk |
- agree
- aid
- allow
- appease
- assist
- be content
- be happy
- be modest
- be sad
- block
- bore
- calm
- cease
- check
- clarify
- clear up
- comfort
- compose
- conceal
- cure
- dampen
- deaden
- delay
- delight
- deprecate
- depress
- deter
- discourage
- disenchant
- dishearten
- dissuade
- dull
- educate
- encourage
- enlighten
- estimate
- explain
- explicate
- fail
- finish
- go along
- guess
- halt
- help
- hide
- hinder
- hold
- impede
- laze
- leave alone
- listen
- lose
- lull
- make happy
- make well
- mend
- misunderstand
- not bother
- order
- organize
- pacify
- physicality
- place
- please
- prevent
- prohibit
- put out
- quiet
- reassure
- refrain
- repress
- rest
- retard
- secrete
- settle
- slow
- soothe
- stop
- straighten
- support
- suppress
- tranquilize
- wait
- weaken
- withhold
Definition of psych
Origin :- as a noun, short for psychology in various senses (e.g. as an academic study, in student slang by 1895). As a verb, first attested 1917 as "to subject to psychoanalysis," short for psychoanalyze. From 1934 as "to outsmart" (also psych out); from 1963 as "to unnerve." However to psych (oneself) up is from 1972; to be psyched up is attested from 1968.
- As in psychology : noun study of the mind; emotional and mental constitution
- As in mindset : noun psychology
- As in incite : verb encourage, provoke
- As in stir : verb incite, stimulate
- As in trouble : verb bother, worry
- As in upset : verb bother, trouble
- As in boast : verb brag
- As in agitate : verb disturb, trouble someone
- As in fluster : verb upset, perturb
- As in foretell : verb predict, warn
- He was one of these psych guys that thinks if you say it's so, it makes it so.
- Extract from : « The Hated » by Frederik Pohl
- Maybe it was that—but I was as confused as a mouse in a psych maze.
- Extract from : « Attrition » by Jim Wannamaker
- Would you mind if I spent an hour in Psych for reorientation?
- Extract from : « Exploiter's End » by James Causey
- I felt guilty over not going to Psych, but there just wasn't the time.
- Extract from : « Exploiter's End » by James Causey
- Bradshaw's psych check certainly hadn't hinted at any instability.
- Extract from : « The Unprotected Species » by Melvin Sturgis
- His psych teacher would be ashamed of him for muddling along so many days, believing in a theory that was so plainly impossible.
- Extract from : « The Enormous Room » by Horace Leonard Gold
- The psych boys were beginning to remind Malone of a semi-pro football team in rather unusual uniforms.
- Extract from : « That Sweet Little Old Lady » by Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA Mark Phillips)
- The psych man was wearing his Star Watcher helmet and had a B-gun strapped at his side.
- Extract from : « What Rough Beast? » by Jefferson Highe
- When I think of my wasted years in college and of how I was always going to take hold of Psych.
- Extract from : « At Good Old Siwash » by George Fitch
- In general, spellings that appear more than once, such as Psyc- for Psych-, were assumed to be intentional.
- Extract from : « Democritus Platonissans » by Henry More
Synonyms for psych
- abet
- activate
- actuate
- add fuel to fire
- addle
- adjy
- adumbrate
- advertise
- affect
- afflict
- aggrandize
- agitate
- ail
- alarm
- animate
- announce
- annoy
- anticipate
- apprehend
- argue
- arouse
- attitude
- attract attention
- augur
- auspicate
- awaken
- behaviorism
- bestir
- betoken
- bewilder
- blow
- blow one's own horn
- blow smoke
- bluster
- bode
- bother
- bug
- bug up
- bully
- burden
- burn up
- call
- call it
- call the shot
- challenge
- coax
- cock-a-doodle-doo
- con
- concern
- confound
- confuse
- congratulate oneself
- cramp
- craze
- crow
- crystal ball it
- debate
- debilitate
- declare
- derange
- disclose
- discombobulate
- discommode
- discompose
- disconcert
- discuss
- dismay
- disoblige
- dispute
- disquiet
- distract
- distress
- disturb
- divine
- divulge
- dope
- dope out
- drive
- drive up the wall
- egg on
- electrify
- encourage
- energize
- ethos
- exaggerate
- examine
- excite
- exhort
- exult
- fake
- fan the fire
- feed the fire
- ferment
- figure
- figure out
- fire up
- flatter oneself
- flaunt
- flip
- flip out
- floor
- flourish
- flurry
- fluster
- foment
- force
- forebode
- forecast
- foreknow
- foreshadow
- forewarn
- forward
- fret
- frustrate
- fuddle
- further
- galvanize
- gasconade
- get to
- give a bad time
- give a good account of oneself
- give a hard time
- gloat
- glory
- goad
- grandstand
- grieve
- harass
- harry
- hassle
- heat
- hug oneself
- hurry
- impel
- impose on
- incapacitate
- incite
- inconvenience
- indispose
- induce
- inflame
- influence
- inspire
- inspirit
- instigate
- irk
- irritate
- jive
- juice
- key up
- kindle
- lay on thick
- lay up
- make a fuss
- make a scene
- make book
- make flip
- make nervous
- make waves
- medicine
- mental make-up
- mental processes
- mentality
- mind
- motivate
- move
- muddle
- mystify
- nonplus
- pain
- perplex
- personality study
- persuade
- perturb
- pester
- pick on
- plague
- portend
- pother
- prate
- preen
- prefigure
- presage
- prick
- proclaim
- prognosticate
- promote
- prompt
- prophesy
- provoke
- psych
- psyche
- puff
- push
- push buttons
- put out
- put up to
- puzzle
- quicken
- raise
- rally
- rattle
- read
- reveal
- rile
- rock the boat
- rouse
- roust
- rout
- ruffle
- sadden
- science of the mind
- see something coming
- set
- set off
- shoot
- shovel
- show off
- showboat
- shuck
- sicken
- signify
- sling
- solicit
- soothsay
- sound off
- spark
- spook
- spur
- stimulate
- stir
- stir embers
- stir up
- strain
- stress
- strut
- swagger
- switch on
- talk big
- talk into
- taunt
- tell
- therapy
- thrill
- throw off balance
- torment
- touch
- trigger
- triumph
- trouble
- try
- turn
- turn on
- unhinge
- unnerve
- unsettle
- upset
- urge
- vapor
- ventilate
- vex
- vitalize
- wake
- waken
- way of thinking
- what makes someone tick
- where head is at
- whet
- whip up
- work up
- worry
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