Mortal
['mɔːt(ə)l] or ['mɔrtl]
Definition
(adj.) subject to death; 'mortal beings' .
(adj.) unrelenting and deadly; 'mortal enemy' .
Typed by Anatole--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
(a.) Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
(a.) Fatally vulnerable; vital.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the time of death.
(a.) Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
(a.) Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.
(a.) Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.
(n.) A being subject to death; a human being; man.
Editor: Whitney
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Subject to death, destined to die.[2]. Deadly, fatal, destructive.[3]. Extreme, violent, unto death, likely to kill.[4]. Human, of man.[5]. [Colloquial.] Long, tedious, trying.
n. Man, human being.
Checked by Darren
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Human, ephemeral, sublunary, short-lived, deadly, fatal, perishable,destructive
ANT:Divine, Immortal, celestial, life-giving, venial, salutiferous, superficial,Mortality,[See DEATH]
Edited by Cheryl
Definition
adj. liable to die: causing death: deadly: fatal: punishable with death: involving the penalty of spiritual death as opposed to Venial: extreme violent implacable: human: (coll.) very great very long confounded very drunk.—n. a human being.—v.t. Mor′talise to make mortal.—n. Mortal′ity condition of being mortal: death: frequency or number of deaths esp. in proportion to population: the human race.—adv. Mor′tally—(coll.) Mor′tal.—ns. Mort′-cloth a pall; Mort′-stone a stone by the wayside on which the bearers lay the bier for a rest during a funeral procession.—Bills of mortality lists of the numbers of those who have died in any place during any given time; Law of mortality rules founded on experience or calculation showing what average proportion of those living at the beginning of a given time will be surviving at its close.
Checker: Stella
Examples
- Her honest ostentatious nature made the sharing of a merited dishonor as bitter as it could be to any mortal. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A cursory examination of the latter revealed no mortal injuries and after a brief rest he asserted that he felt fit to attempt the return voyage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- If you will, for once in your life, remember that you are mortal, perhaps you will thoroughly understand him too. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I said to Miss Mills that this was very true, and who should know it better than I, who loved Dora with a love that never mortal had experienced yet? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The cries of the gorilla proclaimed that it was in mortal combat with some other denizen of the fierce wood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I am as happy as any mortal can hope to be. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Quashy shall do my will, and not his, all the days of his mortal life, and have such chance of getting to heaven, at last, as I find convenient. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We were so absorbed in one another we were of no mortal use apart, and that charming arrangement would make everything easy all round, so we did it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We also approve of one, who is possessed of qualities, that are immediately agreeable to himself; though they be of no service to any mortal. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Who knows; we are but mortal, even marquises and dukes are but mortal. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A number of persons crowded into a small room thus spoil the air in a few minutes and even render it mortal, as in the Black Hole at Calcutta. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- That even Phaidor, daughter of the Master of Life and Death, is mortal, I said smiling. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The irony of circumstances holds no mortal catastrophe in respect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The bird in the air, and the beast in the field, each plays his part and passes to the great unknown, leaving no record; man himself is mortal, but his work is immortal. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Be the First Born gods or mortals, they are a powerful race, and we are as fast in their clutches as though we were already dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be happy--not as angels, but as few are happy amongst mortals. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Ice, I say, doesn't, and it is rather lucky for us mortals, for if it had done so, we would all be dead. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Well, I can only say that if they'd been mortals and had to wear corsets, it would have been better for them. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He has not been the happiest of mortals since last we met him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Pickwick, it is quite unnecessary to say, was one of the most modest and delicate-minded of mortals. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The track of the doomed men through the ranks of their fellow mortals was obliterated. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But in this doubtful stage of Lydgate's introduction he was helped by what we mortals rashly call good fortune. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Hence, ye mortals! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- That is my least concern: I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- They have a peculiar and mysterious power of skimming out of rooms, which other mortals possess not. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Checker: Sylvia