'Mortal' definitions:
Definition of 'mortal'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Subject to death; "mortal beings" [ant: immortal]
adjective
Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" [syn: deadly, mortal(a)]
adjective
Unrelenting and deadly; "mortal enemy"
adjective
Causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" [syn: deadly, deathly, mortal]
noun
A human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul]
Definition of 'Mortal'
From: GCIDE
- Mortal \Mor"tal\, n. A being subject to death; a human being; man. "Warn poor mortals left behind." --Tickell. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mortal'
From: GCIDE
- Mortal \Mor"tal\, a. [F. mortel, L. mortalis, from mors, mortis, death, fr. moriri 8die; akin to E. murder. See Murder, and cf. Filemot, Mere a lake, Mortgage.]
- 1. Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fatally vulnerable; vital. [1913 Webster]
- Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Of or pertaining to the time of death. [1913 Webster]
- Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly. [1913 Webster]
- The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power. [1913 Webster]
- The voice of God To mortal ear is dreadful. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours. [Colloq.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- Mortal foe, Mortal enemy, an inveterate, desperate, or implacable enemy; a foe bent on one's destruction. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mortal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abject,
- Adamite,
- Adamitic,
- anthropocentric,
- anthropological,
- awful,
- baneful,
- being,
- bitter,
- bodily,
- body,
- brittle,
- brutal,
- capricious,
- cat,
- changeable,
- chap,
- character,
- conceivable,
- corporal,
- corporeal,
- corruptible,
- cracking,
- creature,
- customer,
- deadly,
- death-bringing,
- deathful,
- deathly,
- deciduous,
- destructive,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- duck,
- dying,
- earthling,
- earthly,
- earthy,
- enormous,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- extreme,
- fading,
- fantastic,
- fatal,
- fellow,
- feral,
- fickle,
- finite,
- fleeting,
- fleshly,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- great,
- groundling,
- guy,
- hand,
- head,
- hominal,
- homo,
- homocentric,
- human,
- human being,
- humanistic,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- implacable,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- individual,
- inordinate,
- insubstantial,
- intense,
- internecine,
- joker,
- killing,
- lethal,
- life,
- likely,
- living soul,
- malign,
- malignant,
- man,
- man-centered,
- massive,
- merciless,
- momentary,
- monumental,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- nose,
- one,
- only human,
- party,
- passing,
- perishable,
- pernicious,
- person,
- personage,
- personality,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- physical,
- possible,
- prodigious,
- relentless,
- ruthless,
- savage,
- short-lived,
- single,
- somebody,
- someone,
- soul,
- stupendous,
- subject to death,
- sworn,
- tellurian,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- terminal,
- terran,
- terrible,
- towering,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- tremendous,
- unangelic,
- unappeasable,
- unceasing,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unflinching,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unstable,
- unyielding,
- virulent,
- volatile,
- weak,
- woman,
- worldling,
- worldly