mortal

Meaning

Adj

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.
7. Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
8. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
9. (Geordie, Scotland, slang) Very drunk.
10. Causing spiritual death.

Noun

A human; someone susceptible to death.

Adv

Mortally; enough to cause death.

Opposite of

immortal

Synonyms

deadly

man

👨

fatal

lethal

human being

perishable

human

deathly

soul

someone

person

🧑‍🦱

individual

somebody

transitory

creature

earthborn

killing

lethiferous

terminal

human beings

death

💀

fateful

feral

hemal

homo

either

dying

impermanent

implacable

incurable

destiny

intense

destrucitve

last

deep

living soul

life-threatening

dangerous

mortal man

murderous

perilous

cruel

critical

‼️

respectively

serious

severe

corrupt

conceivable

calamitous

sworn

Translations

mortel

mortale

mortal

mortal

sterblich

θνητός

mortal

letale

sterfelijk

θανάσιμος

Sterblicher

tödlich

ölümlü

dodelijk

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmɔːtəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mortal

In summary

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.