mortal

adjective more mortal · most mortal

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.). Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […]

   Similar: fatal, lethal, baneful

3. Punishable by death.
4. Fatally vulnerable. Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.
5. Of or relating to the time of death. Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
6. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle. mortal enemy
7. Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal. mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power
8. Very painful or tedious; wearisome. a sermon lasting two mortal hours
9. Geordie, Scotland, slang Very drunk. Thats^([sic]) nothing, says Tequila Sheila, who told how the summer she was housemaid in The Saint Columba she took this guy back to the staff flats while mortal on slammers and crashed out on him before anything could happen.

   Similar: mortalled

10. of a sin Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
11. colloquial, dated An intensifier. "We will do any mortal thing you like, Max, if you will allow Parkinson to administer a bromo-seltzer and then enable me to meet the officials of the Direct Insurance without a blush."

Opposite: immortal, everlasting, natal, vital, venial

noun mortals

1. A human; someone susceptible to death. Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal.

   Opposite: immortal

adverb

1. colloquial, not comparable Mortally; enough to cause death. It's mortal cold out there.