mentally

English

Etymology

From mental +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛntəli/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: men‧tal‧ly

Adverb

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.

Derived terms

• mentally challenged
• mentally disordered
• mentally handicapped
• mentally ill
• mentally retarded

Translations

in a mental manner

• Armenian: մտովի (hy) (mtovi)
• Bulgarian: мислено (bg) (misleno), наум (bg) (naum)
• Catalan: mentalment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心理上 (zh) (xīnlǐ shàng), 精神上 (zh) (jīngshén shàng)

• Esperanto: anime, mense
• Finnish: henkisesti (fi)
• French: mentalement (fr)
• Galician: mentalmente
• German: geistig (de), psychisch (de), mental (de)
• Italian: mentalmente (it)
• Japanese: 精神的に (ja) (せいしんてきに, seishinteki ni)
• Occitan: mentalament (oc)
• Polish: umysłowo (pl), psychicznie (pl)
• Portuguese: mentalmente (pt)
• Romanian: mintal (ro)
• Russian: у́мственно (ru) (úmstvenno), мы́сленно (ru) (mýslenno)
• Spanish: mentalmente
• Swedish: mentalt (sv)
• Turkish: aklen (tr)
• Ukrainian: по́думки (pódumky), психі́чно (psyxíčno)
• Welsh: meddyliol (cy)

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