1. Liable or subject to death. 2. Of or relating to humankind; human: the mortal limits of understanding.3. Of, relating to, or accompanying death: mortal throes.4. Causing death; fatal: a mortal wound. See synonyms at fatal. 5. Fighting or fought to the death; unrelenting: a mortal enemy; a mortal attack.6. Of great intensity or severity; dire: mortal terror.7. Conceivable: no mortal reason for us to go.8. Used as an intensive: a mortal fool.
NOUN:
A human.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mortlis, from mors, mort-, death. See mer- in Appendix I.
môr
tl
lis, from mors, mort-, death. See mer- in Appendix I.
