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Antonyms for mortal
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : mawr-tl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɔr tl |
Definition of mortal
Origin :- mid-14c., "deadly," also "doomed to die," from Old French mortel "destined to die; deserving of death," from Latin mortalis "subject to death, mortal, of a mortal, human," from mors (genitive mortis) "death," from PIE base *mer- "to die," with derivatives referring to death and human beings" (cf. Sanskrit mrtih "death," martah "mortal man;" Avestan miryeite "dies," Old Persian martiya- "man;" Armenian meranim "die;" Latin mori "to die;" Lithuanian mirtis "mortal man;" Greek brotos "mortal" (hence ambrotos "immortal"); Old Church Slavonic mrutvu "dead;" Old Irish marb, Welsh marw "died;" Old English morþ "murder"). The most widespread Indo-European root for "to die," forming the common word for it except in Greek and Germanic. Watkins says it is "possibly" the same as PIE *mer- "rub, pound, wear away" (see morbid).
- adj deadly
- adj human
- noun human being
- They were fabled as seven sisters, and one lost her place in the sky by marrying a mortal.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- Yet he knew that he was not fatally injured if he could stop that mortal drain of his wounds.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- If it be drinkable by any manner of mortal, I must moisten my throat with it.
- Extract from : « The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- There's no good to mortal creature i' the bones or blood of her!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Alas, the vanity of mortal projects, even when they centre in the grave!
- Extract from : « Other Tales and Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- It would have been more than mortal not to take offense at that.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- Antaeus could not endure to have it said that any mortal was half so mighty as himself.
- Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Neither did the mortal envelope of the late Mr Verloc reposing on the sofa.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- A man is at once material and immaterial, mortal and immortal.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox
- It was soon perceived, upon examination, that the wound was mortal.
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
Synonyms for mortal
- animal
- animate
- being
- bipedal
- bitter
- body
- character
- corporeal
- creatural
- creature
- death-dealing
- deathly
- destructive
- dire
- earthling
- earthly
- ecce homo
- ending
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- extreme
- fading
- fatal
- finite
- frail
- fugacious
- grave
- great
- grievous
- grim
- human
- impermanent
- individual
- intense
- killing
- last
- lethal
- living soul
- malignant
- man
- merciless
- momentary
- monstrous
- mortiferous
- murderous
- naked ape
- noxious
- party
- passing
- perishable
- person
- personage
- pestilent
- pestilential
- poisonous
- precarious
- relentless
- remorseless
- ruthless
- severe
- soul
- sublunary
- temporal
- terminal
- terrible
- transient
- unrelenting
- weak
- woman
- worldly
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