mentally
adv/ˈmɛntəli/
Etymology From mental + -ly.
1
In a mental manner; an idea thought out in one's mind, as opposed to an idea spoken orally.
- mentally capable
- mentally ill
2 more examples
- This is a problem that needs to be solved mentally, not with brute force.
- 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.2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124: