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

Listen to this article The victim in a random knife attack on a Bronx subway deflected a stab to his heart with his arm, prosecutors revealed at the arraignment of the mentally ill parolee accused of attacking him. —John Annese, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025

Working through high impact weather events for multiple days presents physical limitations, is stressful and mentally draining. —Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025

Prostate Cancer Survival Rates and Statistics Coping Coping with a diagnosis of castration-resistant prostate cancer can be challenging in many ways—physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, and logistically. —Matthew Wosnitzer, Verywell Health, 18 Apr. 2025

Balmer's mother said her son was mentally ill and had not been taking his medication. —Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 17 Apr. 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