mortal.
Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
Meaning & usage
Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
Punishable by death.
Fatally vulnerable.
Of or relating to the time of death.
Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
mortal enemy
Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power
Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
a sermon lasting two mortal hours
Very drunk.
Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
An intensifier.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”). In this sense, displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.
A human; someone susceptible to death.
Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”). In this sense, displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.
Mortally; enough to cause death.
It's mortal cold out there.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”). In this sense, displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.
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