Meaning

Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal..

Definitions by Sense

1. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
2. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
3. Punishable by death.
4. Fatally vulnerable.
5. Of or relating to the time of death.
6. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
7. Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
8. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.

Example Sentences

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.

Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.

Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour.

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.

Word Forms

• more mortal
• most mortal
• mortals

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When Should You Use Mortal?

Use mortal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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