Meaning

11 senses
  1. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.

    sterblich

    сме́ртныйsmértnyj

    сме́ртнийsmértnyj

  2. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).

    tödlich

    смерте́льныйsmertélʹnyj

    causing or capable of causing death

  3. Punishable by death.

    subject to death

  4. Fatally vulnerable.

  5. Of or relating to the time of death.

  6. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.

    mortal enemy

  7. Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.

    mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power

  8. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.

    a sermon lasting two mortal hours

  9. (Geordie, Scotland, slang)Very drunk.

  10. Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.

  11. (colloquial, dated)An intensifier.

Examples

72 sentences
  1. We know that all men are mortal.

    Ми знаємо, що всі люди смертні.

    ruМы знаем, что все люди смертны.

    deWir wissen, dass alle Menschen sterben müssen.

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  2. All men are mortal.

    Всі люди смертні.

    ruВсе люди смертны.

    deAlle Menschen sind sterblich.

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  3. All human beings are mortal.

    Всі люди смертні.

    ruВсе люди смертны.

    deJeder Mensch ist sterblich.

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  4. We know all men are mortal.

    ruМы знаем, что все люди смертны.

    deWir wissen, dass alle Menschen sterben müssen.

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  5. Men are mortal.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
susceptible to death:
Русский
By meaning 2
susceptible to death:
causing death; deadly; fatal; killing:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
susceptible to death:
causing death; deadly; fatal; killing:

Origin

From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortāli

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.

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Forms

more mortal, most mortal
Comparativemore mortal Lesson
Superlativemost mortal Lesson

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
causing death:fatalB2lethalbaneful
Close in meaning
  • involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death:deadly
  • causing or capable of causing death:deadlydeathly

Antonyms

5 antonyms
susceptible to death:immortalB2everlastingB2
of or relating to death:natalvitalB2
causing spiritual death:venial

Word family

16 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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