Mortal

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: mor=tal

CIDE DICTIONARY

Mortal, a. [F. mortel, L. mortalis, from mors, mortis, death, fr. moriri 8die; akin to E. murder. See Murder, and cf. Filemot, Mere a lake, Mortgage.].

•  Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.  [1913 Webster]
•  Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.  [1913 Webster]
•  Fatally vulnerable; vital.  [1913 Webster]

  "Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work."  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to the time of death.  [1913 Webster]

  "Safe in the hand of one disposing Power,
  Or in the natal or the mortal hour."  [1913 Webster]
•  Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.  [1913 Webster]

  "The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright."  [1913 Webster]
•  Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.  [1913 Webster]

  "The voice of God
  To mortal ear is dreadful."  [1913 Webster]
•  Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.  Sir W. Scott.  [1913 Webster]

Mortal foe, Mortal enemy, an inveterate, desperate, or implacable enemy; a foe bent on one's destruction.

Mortal, n. 

 A being subject to death; a human being; man.  Tickell.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Mortal, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 (of a living being, esp. a human) subject to death.
2 (often foll. by to) causing death; fatal.
3 (of a battle) fought to the death.
4 associated with death (mortal agony).
5 (of an enemy) implacable.
6 (of pain, fear, an affront, etc.) intense, very serious.
7 colloq. a very great (in a mortal hurry). b long and tedious (for two mortal hours).
8 colloq. conceivable, imaginable (every mortal thing; of no mortal use).
--n.
1 a mortal being, esp. a human.
2 joc. a person described in some specified way (a thirsty mortal).

Idiom

mortal sin Theol. a grave sin that is regarded as depriving the soul of divine grace.

Derivative

mortally adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF mortal, mortel or L mortalis f. mors mortis death

THESAURUS

Mortal

Adamite, Adamitic, abject, anthropocentric, anthropological, awful, baneful, being, bitter, bodily, body, brittle, brutal, capricious, cat, changeable, chap, character, conceivable, corporal, corporeal, corruptible, cracking, creature, customer, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, deciduous, destructive, dire, disastrous, duck, dying, earthling, earthly, earthy, enormous, ephemeral, evanescent, extreme, fading, fantastic, fatal, fellow, feral, fickle, finite, fleeting, fleshly, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, great, groundling, guy, hand, head, hominal, homo, homocentric, human, human being, humanistic, impermanent, impetuous, implacable, impulsive, inconstant, individual, inordinate, insubstantial, intense, internecine, joker, killing, lethal, life, likely, living soul, malign, malignant, man, man-centered, massive, merciless, momentary, monumental, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, nose, one, only human, party, passing, perishable, pernicious, person, personage, personality, pestilent, pestilential, physical, possible, prodigious, relentless, ruthless, savage, short-lived, single, somebody, someone, soul, stupendous, subject to death, sworn, tellurian, temporal, temporary, terminal, terran, terrible, towering, transient, transitive, transitory, tremendous, unangelic, unappeasable, unceasing, undurable, unenduring, unflinching, unrelenting, unremitting, unstable, unyielding, virulent, volatile, weak, woman, worldling, worldly

ROGET THESAURUS

Mortal

Transientness

N transience, transientness, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly, spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement, interregnum, velocity, suddenness, changeableness, transient, transient boarder, transient guest, transient, transitory, transitive, passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral, flying, fugacious, fugitive, shifting, slippery, spasmodic, instantaneous, momentaneous, temporal, temporary, provisional, provisory, deciduous, perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden, momentary, temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time, awhile, en passant, in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip, one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu! fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour!, dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion.

Weariness

N weariness, defatigation, lassitude, drowsiness, disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness, satiety, taedium vitae, boredom, ennui, wearisomeness, tediousness, dull work, tedium, monotony, twice-told tale, bore, buttonholer, proser, wet blanket, pill, stiff, heavy hours, the enemy (time), wearying, wearing, wearisome, tiresome, irksome, uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat, prosy, prosing, slow, soporific, somniferous, disgusting, unenjoyed, weary, tired, drowsy, uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life, sick of, wearily, usque ad nauseam, time hanging heavily on one's hands, toujours perdrix, crambe repetita.

Killing

N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.

Mankind

N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?, man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.