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English
Etymology
From mental + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛntəli/
- Hyphenation: men‧tal‧ly
Adverb
mentally (comparative more mentally, superlative most mentally)
- 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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