mentally

From mental + -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛntəli/

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• Hyphenation: men‧tal‧ly

mentally (comparative more mentally, superlative most mentally)

1. In a mental manner; an idea thought out in one's mind, as opposed to an idea spoken orally.

   mentally capable

   mentally ill

   This is a problem that needs to be solved mentally, not with brute force.

   • 2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124:

     The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.

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