mor·tal (môr tl)adj.1. Liable or subject to death. 2. Of or relating to humankind; human: the mortal limits of understanding. 3. Of, relating to, or accompanying death: mortal throes. 4. Causing death; fatal: a mortal wound. See Synonyms at fatal. 5. Fighting or fought to the death; unrelenting: a mortal enemy; a mortal attack. 6. Of great intensity or severity; dire: mortal terror. 7. Conceivable: no mortal reason for us to go. 8. Used as an intensive: a mortal fool.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mort lis, from mors, mort-, death; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]
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mortal Adjective 1. (of living beings, esp. humans) destined to die sometime rather than living forever 2. causing death; fatal: a mortal wound 3. deadly or unrelenting: he is my mortal enemy 4. of or resulting from the fear of death: mortal terror 5. of or involving life or the world: the hangman's noose ended his mortal existence 6. great or very intense: mortal pain 7. Informal conceivable or possible: there was no mortal reason to leave 8. Slang long and tedious: for three mortal hours Noun a human being [Latin mors death] mortally adv
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. | mortal - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"organism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently personality - the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others" chassis, bod, human body, material body, physical body, physique, build, anatomy, figure, flesh, frame, shape, soma, form - alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" self - a person considered as a unique individual; "one's own self" adult, grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward applicant, applier - a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission capitalist - a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) changer, modifier - a person who changes something; "an inveterate changer of the menu" contestant - a person who participates in competitions coward - a person who shows fear or timidity creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things experimenter - a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas; "she was an experimenter in new forms of poetry" expert - a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully face - a part of a person that is used to refer to a person; "he looked out at a roomful of faces"; "when he returned to work he met many new faces" individualist - a person who pursues independent thought or action aborigine, indigen, indigene, native, aboriginal - an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students" native - a person born in a particular place or country; "he is a native of Brazil" lover - a person who loves someone or is loved by someone loved one - a person who you love, usually a member of your family leader - a person who rules or guides or inspires others male person, male - a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies | | Adj. | 1. | mortal - subject to death; "mortal beings"finite - bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent earthly - of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home" | | 2. | mortal - involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins"theology, divinity - the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth unpardonable - not admitting of pardon; "unpardonable behavior" | | 3. | mortal - unrelenting and deadly; "mortal enemy"merciless, unmerciful - having or showing no mercy; "the merciless enemy"; "a merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating" | | 4. | mortal - causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" |
mortal adjective 1. human, worldly, passing, earthly, fleshly, temporal, transient, ephemeral, perishable, corporeal, impermanent, sublunary adjective 4. great, serious, terrible, enormous, severe, extreme, grave, intense, awful, dire, agonizing
Translations mortal [ˈmɔːtl] adj, n → mortal m
mortal [ˈmɔːtl] adj, n → mortel(le)
mortal [ˈmɔːtl] adj → sterblich; (danger) → Todes-; n (human being) → Sterbliche(r) f(m)
mortal [ˈmɔːtl] adj, n → mortale (m)
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