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mortal
English
Etymology
From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mort?lis, from mors (“death”). Partly displaced native deadly, from Old English d?adl??.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m??t?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m???t?l/
- Rhymes: -??(r)t?l
Adjective
mortal (comparative more mortal, superlative most mortal)
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal. [from 14th c.]
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.). [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.11:
- Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist
A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […]
- Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.11:
- Punishable by death.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- 2012, Olivia Gates, Immortal, Insatiable, Indomitable, Harlequin (?ISBN)
- “It's just...I hesitated to call the police. I wasn't sure you'd appreciate their presence.” He sure wouldn't. Mortal scum he could dispatch. Mortal law enforcement he avoided at all costs […]
- 2012, Olivia Gates, Immortal, Insatiable, Indomitable, Harlequin (?ISBN)
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- a. 1832, Walter Scott, To Halbert
- (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 13:
- Thats[sic] nothing, says Tequila Sheila, who told how the summer she was housemaid in The Saint Columba she took this guy back to the staff flats while mortal on slammers and crashed out on him before anything could happen.
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 13:
- (religion) Of a sin: involving the penalty of spiritual death, rather than merely venial.
Synonyms
- (causing death): fatal, lethal, baneful
Antonyms
- (susceptible to death): immortal, everlasting
- (of or relating to death): natal, vital
- (causing death): vital
Derived terms
- mortality
- mortally
- mortal sin
Translations
Noun
mortal (plural mortals)
- A human; someone susceptible to death.
- Antonym: immortal
- 1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Lord what fools these mortals be!
Derived terms
- lesser mortal
- mere mortal
Related terms
- moribund
Translations
Adverb
mortal (not comparable)
- (colloquial) Mortally; enough to cause death.
Asturian
Pronunciation
Adjective
mortal (epicene, plural mortales)
- mortal (susceptible to death)
- mortal (causing death; deadly; fatal; killing)
- deadly (lethal)
- Synonym: mortíferu
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin mort?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /mo??tal/
- (Central) IPA(key): /mur?tal/
Adjective
mortal (masculine and feminine plural mortals)
- mortal
- Antonym: immortal
- deadly, lethal
Related terms
- mortalitat
Noun
mortal m or f (plural mortals)
- mortal
Further reading
- “mortal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mortal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “mortal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mortal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Interlingua
Adjective
mortal (not comparable)
- mortal (liable to die)
- Illo es un mortal wombat, illo decomponera etiam.
- mortal (causing death)
- Un mortal wombat attaccava ille.
Related terms
- mortalitate
- morte
Italian
Noun
mortal m or f
- Apocopic form of mortale
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mur?tal/
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
mortal
- mortal
- deadly, lethal
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese mortal, and their source Latin mort?lis, from mors (“death”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mu??ta?/
- Hyphenation: mor?tal
Adjective
mortal m or f (plural mortais, sometimes comparable)
- (not comparable) Susceptible to death; mortal.
- Antonym: imortal
- (comparable) Prone to cause death; deadly; lethal; fatal.
Inflection
Derived terms
- mortalmente
Related terms
- mortalidade
Noun
mortal m, f (plural mortais)
- A mortal person.
- Antonym: imortal
- (gymnastics) A backflip.
Further reading
- “mortal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin mort?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mo??tal/, [mo??t?al]
- Hyphenation: mor?tal
Adjective
mortal (plural mortales)
- deadly
- mortal
- Antonym: inmortal
Derived terms
Related terms
- morir
- mortalidad
- muerte
Further reading
- “mortal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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dying
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?da?.??/
- Homophone: dyeing
Etymology 1
die +? -ing
Adjective
dying (not comparable)
- Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
- The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
- a dying fire
- The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.
- Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
- In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
- Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
- His dying words were of his mother.
- until my dying day
- his dying bed
Antonyms
- nascent
Translations
Noun
dying (countable and uncountable, plural dyings)
- The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.
Translations
Verb
dying
- present participle of die
Etymology 2
dye +? -ing
Verb
dying
- (nonstandard) present participle of dye
Anagrams
- dingy
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