Mortal
- n. A being subject to death; a human being; man.
- 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.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.