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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Liable or subject to death.
  2. adj. Of or relating to humankind; human: the mortal limits of understanding.
  3. adj. Of, relating to, or accompanying death: mortal throes.
  4. adj. Causing death; fatal: a mortal wound. See Synonyms at fatal.
  5. adj. Fighting or fought to the death; unrelenting: a mortal enemy; a mortal attack.
  6. adj. Of great intensity or severity; dire: mortal terror.
  7. adj. Conceivable: no mortal reason for us to go.
  8. adj. Used as an intensive: a mortal fool.
  9. n. A human.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Subject to death; destined to die.
  2. Human; of or pertaining to man, who is subject to death: as, mortal knowledge; mortal power.
  3. Deadly; destructive to life; causing death, or that may or must cause death; fatal.
  4. Deadly; implacable; to the death; such as threatens life: as, mortal hatred.
  5. Such that injury or disease affecting it may cause death.
  6. Bringing death; noting the time of death.
  7. Incurring the penalty of spiritual death; inferring divine condemnation: opposed to venial: as, a mortal sin (see sin).
  8. Extreme; very great or serious: as, mortal offense.
  9. Long and uninterrupted; felt to be long and tedious.
  10. Euphemistically, confounded; cursed: as, not a mortal thing to eat.
  11. Drunk.
  12. n. Man, as a being subject to death; a human being.
  13. n. That which is mortal.
  14. Extremely; excessively; perfectly: as, mortal angry; mortal drunk.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Subject to death; destined to die.
  2. adj. Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly.
  3. adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
  4. adj. Of or pertaining to the time of death.
  5. adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
  6. adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
  7. adj. colloq. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
  8. n. A being subject to death; a human being; man.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. subject to death
  2. n. a human being
  3. adj. involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
  4. adj. unrelenting and deadly
  5. adj. causing or capable of causing death

Etymologies

  1. From Anglo-Norman mortal, Middle French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors ("death"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mortālis, from mors, mort-, death; see mer- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • oroboros contronymic: fatal as in "mortal blow";living beings, "mortals" Dec 9, 2006

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