Emotionally means in a way that involves strong feeling. Speak emotionally, emotionally exhausted, emotionally involved.
It attaches to adjectives to mark which kind of a state is meant — emotionally exhausted is a different thing from physically exhausted, and the phrase exists because people kept confusing the two. Emotionally intelligent is a modern fixed phrase.
1adverbemotionallyIn a way that involves strong feeling.
“She spoke emotionally about her late father at the wedding.”
emotionally is a manner.
From emotional + -ly.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA