Meaning of mortal in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A human; someone susceptible to death.

  Example: Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal.

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.

  Example: mortal enemy

• Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.

  Example: mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power

• Very painful or tedious; wearisome.

  Example: a sermon lasting two mortal hours

• Very drunk; wasted; smashed.

• Of a sin: involving the penalty of spiritual death, rather than merely venial.

adverb

• Mortally; enough to cause death.

  Example: It's mortal cold out there.