adverb
definition
In a mental manner; an idea thought out in one's mind, as opposed to an idea spoken orally.
Examples of mentally in a Sentence
They are mentally in the condition of children.
Jessi felt like she'd been mentally hit by a truck.
Mentally, you are holding out.
Carmen mentally counted to ten before responding.
Mentally, she started on the portrait.
Dron was one of those physically and mentally vigorous peasants who grow big beards as soon as they are of age and go on unchanged till they are sixty or seventy, without a gray hair or the loss of a tooth, as straight and strong at sixty as at thirty.
She was mentally tough but fatigued by the events that occurred since they inadvertently met on a night similar to this one.
It is true that a teacher with ten times Miss Sullivan's genius could not have made a pupil so remarkable as Helen Keller out of a child born dull and mentally deficient.
Then he vividly pictured to himself Bogucharovo, his occupations in the country, his journey to Ryazan; he remembered the peasants and Dron the village elder, and mentally applying to them the Personal Rights he had divided into paragraphs, he felt astonished that he could have spent so much time on such useless work.
He kicked himself mentally for not thinking before he made any sort of pact with the Watcher, even one that seemed so straightforward, until he met his target and realized she was an innocent caught in the crossfire.
If four coins are laid on a table, close together, they can (by most adults) be seen to be four, without counting; but seven coins have to be separated mentally into two groups, the numbers of which are added, or one group has to be seen and the remaining objects counted, before the number is known to be seven.
He was one of those medical prodigies that mentally existed on a level too removed for most people to follow.
You'd have to be pretty mentally tough to go through all this without cracking.
He shook himself mentally to refocus on the dire circumstances before him but was unable to force the thought of Kiera from his mind.
Then you do think I'm ... mentally disturbed.
She rubbed the back of her neck, mentally wired despite her fatigue.
And don't use the term, mentally disturbed.
Male, she noted mentally.
Mentally disturbed - A very small group of people have a mental disorder which compels them to steal.
Deidre walked deeper into the forest, wrestling with herself mentally.
Darkyn asked Gabriel mentally.
Katie, Rhyn corrected him mentally.
Darian debated how to find Jenn before he risked talking to her mentally.
That's why you didn't respond when I called you mentally.
Pure terror, she answered mentally.
Stop it, she directed him mentally.
Others, he told himself mentally.
She shook herself mentally.
The second Lord Shaftesbury appears to have been a poor creature, both physically and mentally.
As Aristotle puts it, the syllogism is directed " not to the outer, but to the inner discourse," or as we should say, not to the expression but to the thought, not to the proposition but to the judgment, and to the inference not verbally but mentally.
The idea that systematic efforts should be made to improve the breed of mankind by checking the birth-rate of the unfit and furthering the productivity of the fit was first put forward by him in 1865; he mooted it again in 1884, using the term "eugenics" for the first time in Human Faculty, and in 1904 he endowed a research fellowship in the university of London for the promotion of knowledge of that subject, which was defined as "the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally."
It appears that he became mentally feeble some years before his death, and was obliged to surrender the management of his affairs to his brother Marcus.
Physically and mentally deficient, Ivan was the mere tool of the party in Muscovy who would have kept the children of the tsar Alexis, by his second consort Natalia Naruishkina, from the throne.
Similarly, in the metric system he cannot mentally compare two units, one of which is t000 times the other.
Mentally exhausted from the intricate game, she rose to return to her room for bed.
Jenn gazed towards the wall, mentally determining her chances at taking on six guardsmen and getting them all over the wall before more came or worse—before Others showed up.
He wrestled with himself silently for a moment – or maybe with the Oracle, who no doubt was able to talk to him mentally – then stepped back and threw open his arms.
The latter's son, Prince Rupert, became heir to the throne but he was mentally defective.
The placement is a live-in school devoted to caring for mentally disabled Japanese adults.
Guy's Hospital also admitted the mentally afflicted into its ' lunatic ward ' .
Also I felt mentally more agile than they are about my kind of thing.
Young players from the outset should be coached to be problem solvers and thus more mentally agile for success in the sport.
In the years before Hampshire's county lunatic asylum existed, the Winchester workhouse provided care for " lunatic and mentally handicapped paupers " .
We are so barbaric here that we execute the mentally retarded people.
When the donor becomes mentally incapable, the attorney cannot just go ahead and act on the donor's behalf.
Do I mentally wish them toward the speed cameras?
Intrusive research is defined in terms of whether consent would be required of a person who is mentally competent.
Multiply and divide decimals mentally by 10 or 100, and integers by 1000, and explain the effect.
Steven Miller Great Yarmouth, Norfolk Are you mentally deranged?
Something... she shook herself mentally.