mortal
IPA: mˈɔrtʌɫ
noun
- A human; someone susceptible to death.
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.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- (Scotland, Tyneside, slang) Very drunk.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death.
adverb
- (colloquial) Mortally; enough to cause death.
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Examples of "mortal" in Sentences
- The man had a brush with mortality.
- Personal sins are either mortal or venial.
- Is that a mortal sin, or merely a venial one
- Narbona was mortally wounded in the fusillade.
- This animal is the mortal enemy of the elephant.
- The Leviathan is impervious to all mortal weapons.
- Neonatal mortality form part of the mortality rates.
- The mortality rate was the third lowest in the world.
- It's tempting to divide the mortality by the incidence.
- In addition, it is not the mortal who is unfaithful to the nymph.
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