mortal
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
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.
Inflected forms:
form: more mortal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mortal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mortals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
pos: adj
gloss: Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
pos: adj
examples: Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist
 A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […]
into the plain
Disgorged at length, the dead and the alive,
In one dread mass, were parted, and the stain
Of blood from mortal steel fell o’er the fields like rain.
gloss: Punishable by death.
pos: adj
gloss: Fatally vulnerable.
pos: adj
examples: Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.
gloss: Of or relating to the time of death.
pos: adj
examples: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power,
 Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
gloss: Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
pos: adj
examples: mortal enemy
The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.
I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.
Although the Japanese have engaged with little hesitation, they are as surprised as the Americans to be fighting this battle. Although the escort-carrier groups have been under sporadic air attack for over a week, these attacks appear to have been conducted by aircraft from the Japanese Army, who, of course, have utterly failed to mention any of this to their counterparts-dash-rivals-dash-mortal enemies in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
gloss: Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
pos: adj
examples: mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power
The voice of God
 To mortal ear is dreadful.
“It's just...I hesitated to call the police. I wasn't sure you'd appreciate their presence.” He sure wouldn't. Mortal scum he could dispatch. Mortal law enforcement he avoided at all costs[…]
gloss: Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
pos: adj
examples: a sermon lasting two mortal hours
gloss: Very drunk.
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
Scotland
slang
examples: Thats^([sic]) nothing, says Tequila Sheila, who told how the summer she was housemaid in The Saint Columba she took this guy back to the staff flats while mortal on slammers and crashed out on him before anything could happen.
gloss: Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
pos: adj
gloss: An intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
dated
examples: "We will do any mortal thing you like, Max, if you will allow Parkinson to administer a bromo-seltzer and then enable me to meet the officials of the Direct Insurance without a blush."
gloss: A human; someone susceptible to death.
pos: noun
examples: Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal.
Lord what fools these mortals be!
But then I had the flintlock by me for protection.
 There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…].
gloss: Mortally; enough to cause death.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: It's mortal cold out there.
Antonyms: immortal
everlasting
natal
vital
venial
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
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