mentally Definition

mental
adj

1. Belonging or relating to, or done by using, the mind or intelligence.

Example: a mental process
Example: mental arithmetic
Thesaurus: cerebral, reasoning, rational, thinking, cognitive, intellectual, theoretical, conceptual, subliminal, subconscious; Antonym: physical.
2. old use
Belonging to, or suffering from, an illness or illnesses of the mind.
Example: a mental patient
3. colloq
Foolish; stupid.
4. colloq
Ridiculous; unimaginable.

Derivative: mentally
adverb

With reference to the mind or its use
Thesaurus: rationally, intellectually, subjectively, introspectively, psychologically.

Etymology: 15c: French, from Latin mentalis, from mens the mind.