mentally
/ˈmɛntəli/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.20 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a mental manner; an idea thought out in one's mind, as opposed to an idea spoken orally.
Example Sentences
- "mentally capable"
- "mentally ill"
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós Proto-Italic *məntom Latin mentum English -al English mental Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English mentally From mental + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more mentally (comparative)
most mentally (superlative)