mortal

mor·tal  (môrtl)

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.

n.

A human.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mortlis, from mors, mort-, death; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]

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mortal·ly adv.

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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

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	mortal - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" individual, person, somebody, someone, soul organism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently causal agency, causal agent, cause - any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results 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 adventurer, venturer - a person who enjoys taking risks unusual person, anomaly - a person who is unusual applicant, applier - a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission appointee, appointment - a person who is appointed to a job or position capitalist - a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) captor, capturer - a person who captures and holds people or animals changer, modifier - a person who changes something; "an inveterate changer of the menu" color-blind person - a person unable to distinguish differences in hue common man, common person, commoner - a person who holds no title communicator - a person who communicates with others 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 controversialist, disputant, eristic - a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy applied scientist, engineer, technologist - a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems entertainer - a person who tries to please or amuse 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" female person, female - a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies individualist - a person who pursues independent thought or action denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, indweller - a person who inhabits a particular place 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" inexperienced person, innocent - a person who lacks knowledge of evil intellectual, intellect - a person who uses the mind creatively juvenile, juvenile person - a young person, not fully developed 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 money dealer, money handler - a person who receives or invests or pays out money
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" immortal - not subject to death
	2.	mortal - involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" deadly 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" deadly, deathly fatal - bringing death

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mortal

adjective 1. human, worldly, passing, earthly, fleshly, temporal, transient, ephemeral, perishable, corporeal, impermanent, sublunary

adjective 2. fatal, killing, terminal, deadly, destructive, lethal, murderous, death-dealing

adjective 3. unrelenting, bitter, sworn, deadly, relentless, to the death, implacable, out-and-out, irreconcilable, remorseless

adjective 4. great, serious, terrible, enormous, severe, extreme, grave, intense, awful, dire, agonizing

noun 5. human being, being, man, woman, body, person, human, individual, earthling

Translations

mortal [ˈmɔːtl] adj, n → mortal m

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mortal [ˈmɔːtl] adj, n → mortel(le)

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mortal [ˈmɔːtl] adj → sterblich;

(wound, combat) → tödlich;

(danger) → Todes-;

(sin, enemy) → Tod-

n (human being) → Sterbliche(r) f(m)

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mortal [ˈmɔːtl] adj, n → mortale (m)