mortal adj

1 subject to death; "mortal beings" [ant: immortal]

2 involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" [syn: deadly, mortal(a)]

3 unrelenting and deadly; "mortal enemy" [syn: mortal(a)]

4 causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" [syn: deadly, deathly] n : a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, human, soul]

English

Etymology

From Latin mortalis, from mortis (mors) ‘death’, from Indo-European ‘die’ (the source of Ancient Greek βροτός ‘mortal’ (from an earlier form *μροτός), Old English morþ ‘murder’, Welsh marw ‘died’, Lithuanian mirtìs ‘mortal’).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)təl

Adjective

mortal

1. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     ... for I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.

Antonyms

• immortal

Derived terms

• mortality
• mortal sin

Translations

Noun

1. A human; someone susceptible to death.
   • 1596: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

     Lord what fools these mortals be!

Antonyms

• immortal

Translations

Spanish

Adjective

1. deadly
2. mortal

Antonyms

• inmortal

Related terms

• morir
• muerte

Mortality is the condition of being mortal, or susceptible to death; the opposite of immortality.

It may also refer to:

• Mortality rate, a measure of the number of deaths in a given population.
• Mortality (band), a death metal band from Sydney, Australia.
• Mortality (computability theory), in computability theory, a property of a Turing machine if it halts when run on any starting configuration.

Mortal may refer to:

• Human, as distinct from a supernatural being.
• Mortal (band), a Christian industrial band.

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