English Explanatory Dictionary

mortal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
  2. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
  3. Punishable by death.
  4. Fatally vulnerable.
  5. Of or relating to the time of death.
  6. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
  7. Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
  8. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
  9. Very drunk.
  10. Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
  11. An intensifier.
noun
  1. A human; someone susceptible to death.
adv
  1. Mortally; enough to cause death.

Pronunciation

/ˈmɔː.təl/ /ˈmɔɹ.təl/ [ˈmɔɹ.ɾɫ̩] en-us-mortal.ogg

Word forms

mortal more mortal most mortal mortals

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

fatal lethal baneful mortalled

Antonyms

immortal everlasting natal vital venial

Related words

moribund

Derived words

amortal mortal coil mortal combat mortalin mortalise mortalism mortalist mortality mortalize mortally mortalness mortal remains mortal sin nonmortal perimortal postmortal premortal shuffle off this mortal coil lesser mortal mere mortal
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