mentally

adverb

men·​tal·​ly ˈmen-tᵊl-ē 

1

: in the mind

Mentally he promised himself that he would never again use a collar on any living creature.

—Brian Jacques

: using the mind

able to mentally calculate large sums

2

: with regard to the mind or its capacity

physically and mentally healthy people

a mentally competent adult

a mentally challenging activity

… if you try to hide the fact that you feel mentally inadequate, and so go around making jokes about your own dullness and acting as if it didn't bother you at all …

—David Foster Wallace

I felt too hungry and tired and mentally overloaded to ask any more questions.

—Rick Riordan

Examples of mentally in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But that type of thinking is also slow and enormously mentally taxing. —Jens Ludwig, Time, 15 May 2025

Iga Świątek has said that the stress of proving her innocence heavily affected her mentally. —Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 14 May 2025

Build in transition periods: Allow buffer time between different roles to shift gears mentally. —Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025

But the jobs aren’t easy to fill and have specific requirements – including being younger than 31 years old in order to work 20 to 25 years before a mandatory retirement at 56, being mentally and physically fit and successfully completing a rigorous training, according to the FAA. —Sarah Dewberry, CNN Money, 12 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing mentally

• mentally retarded

Rhymes for mentally

• accidentally
• detrimentally
• fundamentally
• governmentally
• incidentally
• incrementally
• instrumentally
• sentimentally
• temperamentally
• coincidentally
• environmentally
• experimentally