mortal

Meanings

Adjective

• 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.
• Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
• Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• Of a sin: involving the penalty of spiritual death, rather than merely venial.

Noun

• A human; someone susceptible to death.

Adverb

• Mortally; enough to cause death.

Related

Similar words

• fatal, lethal, baneful

Opposite words

• immortal, everlasting
• natal, vital
• vital

Origin

• From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors. Partly displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.