compos mentis

Examples

• All

• He's virtually non compos mentis.

  Playing by Heart (1998)

• Yet, he took another draught of his beer, convinced that it was better to die non compos mentis.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Although someone like Mr. Lockerby will present as completely non compos mentis...

  Dracula's Guest (2008)

• Did you know that Dr. Fischer came to the conclusion that you were non compos mentis?

  Nefarious (2023)

• Non compos mentis... -

  Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

• After the subway blowout and the line-up on top... they don't think she's 100% compos mentis.

  Faces in the Crowd (2011)

• As former Senator Birch Bayh, a key author of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, has said, when a president is "going to be non compos mentis, somebody else should be running the shop."

  Academic text (2014)

• He might not be altogether compos mentis—this hitchhiker, awarded to Bill by the journey, like an idiotic prize—but that made him all the more potentially dangerous.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The lawyer argued that his client was compos mentis at the time of the incident.

• To be considered compos mentis, an individual must clearly understand the consequences of their actions.

Synonyms

O

of sound mind

vscompos mentis

• Formal

9 6.5

Able to think clearly and make decisions

is a Latin legal expression used in formal contexts

C

clear-thinking

vscompos mentis

3 4.2

Able to think calmly and logically without confusion or distraction

is about full legal mental capacity rather than simple logical thinking

Antonyms

I

insane

• Slur

524 4.0

Having a very serious mental illness that changes how someone thinks

How Sane

compos mentis

• Jargon

3 9.9

impaired

49 4.4

unsound

• Formal

3 8.4

insane

• Offensive

184 4.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology