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adj
Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
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adj
Punishable by death.
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adj
Fatally vulnerable.
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adj
Of or relating to the time of death.
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adj
Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
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adj
Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
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adj
Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
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adj
Very drunk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Geordie, Scotland, slang
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Synonyms: mortalled
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adj
Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: lifestyle, religion
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adj
An intensifier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, dated
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adv
Mortally; enough to cause death.
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Usage: colloquial, not-comparable
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noun
A human; someone susceptible to death.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: immortal
adjective
subject to death
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: immortal
adjective satellite
causing or capable of causing death
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: deadly, deathly
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noun
a human being
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: person, individual, someone, somebody, soul
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Broader terms: organism, being, causal agent, cause, causal agency
Narrower terms: self, adult, grownup, adventurer, venturer, anomaly, unusual person, applicant, applier, appointee, appointment, capitalist, captor, capturer, changer, modifier, color-blind person, commoner, common man, common person, communicator, contestant, coward, creator, disputant, controversialist, eristic, engineer, applied scientist, technologist, entertainer, experimenter, expert, face, female, female person, individualist, inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller, native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal, innocent, inexperienced person, intellectual, intellect, juvenile, juvenile person, lover, loved one, leader, male, male person, money handler, money dealer, national, subject, nonreligious person, nonworker, peer, equal, match, compeer, perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder, percher, precursor, forerunner, primitive, primitive person, religious person, sensualist, traveler, traveller, unfortunate, unfortunate person, unwelcome person, persona non grata, unskilled person, worker, African, person of color, person of colour, Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid, White, White person, Caucasian, Amerindian, Native American, Slav, gentile, Jew, Hebrew, Israelite, Aries, Ram, Taurus, Bull, Gemini, Twin, Cancer, Crab, Leo, Lion, Virgo, Virgin, Libra, Balance, Scorpio, Scorpion, Sagittarius, Archer, Capricorn, Goat, Aquarius, Water Bearer, Pisces, Fish, abator, abjurer, abomination, abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker, achiever, winner, success, succeeder, acquaintance, friend, acquirer, active, actor, doer, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister, advisee, advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent, affiant, agnostic, doubter, amateur, ancient, anti, anti-American, apprehender, appreciator, archaist, arrogator, assessee, asthmatic, authority, autodidact, baby boomer, boomer, baby buster, buster, bad guy, bad person, baldhead, baldpate, baldy, balker, baulker, noncompliant, bullfighter, toreador, bather, beard, bedfellow, bereaved, bereaved person, best, topper, birth, biter, blogger, blond, blonde, bluecoat, bodybuilder, muscle builder, muscle-builder, musclebuilder, muscleman, bomber, brunet, brunette, candidate, prospect, case, cashier, celebrant, celebrator, celebrater, censor, chameleon, charmer, beguiler, child, baby, chutzpanik, closer, clumsy person, collector, aggregator, combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper, complexifier, compulsive, computer user, contemplative, convert, copycat, imitator, emulator, ape, aper, counter, counterterrorist, crawler, creeper, creature, wight, creditor, cripple, dancer, social dancer, dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed, deaf person, debaser, degrader, debtor, debitor, defecator, voider, shitter, delayer, deliverer, demander, dieter, differentiator, discriminator, disentangler, unraveler, unraveller, dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, divider, domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent, double, image, look-alike, dresser, dribbler, driveller, slobberer, drooler, drug user, substance abuser, user, dyslectic, ectomorph, effecter, effector, Elizabethan, emotional person, endomorph, enjoyer, enrollee, ethnic, explorer, extrovert, extravert, faddist, faller, fastener, fiduciary, first-rater, follower, free agent, free spirit, freewheeler, fugitive, runaway, fleer, gainer, weight gainer, gambler, gatekeeper, gatherer, good guy, good person, granter, greeter, saluter, welcomer, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, handicapped person, hater, heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, straight, homosexual, homophile, homo, gay, homunculus, hope, hoper, huddler, hugger, immune, insured, insured person, interpreter, introvert, Jat, jewel, gem, jumper, junior, killer, slayer, relative, relation, kink, kneeler, knocker, knower, large person, Latin, laugher, learner, scholar, assimilator, left-hander, lefty, southpaw, life, lightning rod, linguist, polyglot, literate, literate person, liver, longer, thirster, yearner, loose cannon, machine, mailer, malcontent, man, manipulator, man jack, married, masturbator, onanist, measurer, nonmember, mesomorph, mestizo, ladino, middlebrow, miracle man, miracle worker, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, monolingual, mother hen, mouse, mutilator, maimer, mangler, namer, namesake, neglecter, neighbor, neighbour, neutral, nondescript, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonpartizan, nonperson, unperson, nonresident, nonsmoker, nude, nude person, nurser, occultist, optimist, orphan, ostrich, ouster, ejector, outcaste, outdoorsman, owner, possessor, pamperer, spoiler, coddler, mollycoddler, pansexual, pardoner, forgiver, excuser, partner, party, passer, personage, personification, perspirer, sweater, philosopher, picker, chooser, selector, pisser, urinator, planner, contriver, deviser, player, posturer, powderer, preserver, propositus, public relations person, pursuer, pussycat, quarter, quitter, radical, realist, rectifier, redhead, redheader, red-header, carrottop, registrant, reliever, allayer, comforter, repeater, rescuer, recoverer, saver, rester, restrainer, controller, revenant, rich person, wealthy person, have, right-hander, right hander, righthander, riser, romper, roundhead, ruler, swayer, rusher, scientist, scratcher, second-rater, mediocrity, seeder, cloud seeder, seeker, searcher, quester, segregate, sentimentalist, romanticist, sex object, sex symbol, shaker, mover and shaker, showman, signer, signatory, simpleton, simple, six-footer, skidder, slider, slipper, slave, sleepyhead, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, sniveler, snuffer, snuffler, socializer, socialiser, sort, sounding board, sphinx, spitter, expectorator, sport, sprawler, spurner, squinter, squint-eye, stifler, smotherer, stigmatic, stigmatist, stooper, stranger, struggler, guinea pig, supernumerary, surrenderer, yielder, survivalist, survivor, suspect, tagger, tapper, tempter, termer, terror, scourge, threat, testator, testate, thin person, skin and bones, scrag, third-rater, thrower, tiger, totemist, toucher, transfer, transferee, transsexual, transexual, transvestite, cross-dresser, trier, attempter, essayer, turner, tyrant, undoer, opener, unfastener, untier, vanisher, victim, dupe, Victorian, visionary, visually impaired person, waiter, waker, walk-in, wanter, needer, ward, warrior, watcher, weakling, doormat, wuss, weasel, wiggler, wriggler, squirmer, winker, withholder, witness, worldling, yawner
History
From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”). In this sense, displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.
Across languages
147 source translations are retained for this English entry.
