mortal(n = noun.tops) individual, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
is a kind of being, organism, causal agency, causal agent, cause
has parts: personality, anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma
is a member of people
has particulars: self, adult, grownup, adventurer, venturer, anomaly, unusual person, applicant, applier, appointee, appointment, capitalist, captor, capturer, changer, modifier, color-blind person, common man, common person, commoner, communicator, contestant, coward, creator, controversialist, disputant, eristic, applied scientist, engineer, technologist, entertainer, experimenter, expert, face, female, female person, individualist, denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant, aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene, native, native, inexperienced person, innocent, intellect, intellectual, juvenile, juvenile person, lover, loved one, leader, male, male person, money dealer, money handler, national, subject, nonreligious person, nonworker, compeer, equal, match, peer, beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient, percher, forerunner, precursor, primitive, primitive person, religious person, sensualist, traveler, traveller, unfortunate, unfortunate person, persona non grata, unwelcome person, unskilled person, worker, african, person of color, person of colour, black, black person, blackamoor, negro, negroid, caucasian, white, white person, amerindian, native american, slav, gentile, hebrew, israelite, jew, aries, ram, bull, taurus, gemini, twin, cancer, crab, leo, lion, virgin, virgo, balance, libra, scorpio, scorpion, archer, sagittarius, capricorn, goat, aquarius, water bearer, fish, pisces, abator, abjurer, abomination, abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker, achiever, succeeder, success, winner, acquaintance, friend, acquirer, active, actor, doer, worker, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister, advisee, advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent, affiant, agnostic, doubter, amateur, ancient, anti, anti-american, apprehender, appreciator, archaist, arrogator, assessee, asthmatic, authority, autodidact, baby boomer, boomer, baby buster, buster, bad guy, bad person, baldhead, baldpate, baldy, balker, baulker, noncompliant, bullfighter, toreador, bather, beard, bedfellow, bereaved, bereaved person, best, topper, birth, biter, blogger, blond, blonde, bluecoat, bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman, bomber, brunet, brunette, buster, candidate, prospect, case, cashier, celebrant, celebrater, celebrator, censor, chameleon, beguiler, charmer, baby, child, chutzpanik, closer, clumsy person, aggregator, collector, battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper, complexifier, compulsive, computer user, contemplative, convert, ape, aper, copycat, emulator, imitator, counter, counterterrorist, crawler, creeper, creature, wight, creditor, cripple, dancer, social dancer, dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent, departed, deaf person, debaser, degrader, debitor, debtor, defecator, shitter, voider, delayer, deliverer, demander, dieter, differentiator, discriminator, disentangler, unraveler, unraveller, contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector, protester, divider, domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent, double, image, look-alike, dresser, dribbler, driveller, drooler, slobberer, drug user, substance abuser, user, dyslectic, ectomorph, effecter, effector, elizabethan, emotional person, endomorph, enjoyer, enrollee, ethnic, adventurer, explorer, extravert, extrovert, faddist, faller, fastener, fiduciary, first-rater, follower, free agent, free spirit, freewheeler, friend, fleer, fugitive, runaway, gainer, gainer, weight gainer, gambler, gatekeeper, gatherer, good guy, good person, granter, greeter, saluter, welcomer, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, handicapped person, hater, heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight, straight person, gay, homo, homophile, homosexual, homunculus, hope, hoper, huddler, hugger, immune, insured, insured person, interpreter, introvert, jat, gem, jewel, jumper, junior, killer, slayer, relation, relative, kink, kneeler, knocker, apprehender, knower, large person, latin, laugher, assimilator, learner, scholar, left-hander, lefty, southpaw, life, lightning rod, linguist, polyglot, literate, literate person, liver, longer, thirster, yearner, loose cannon, machine, mailer, malcontent, man, manipulator, man jack, married, masturbator, onanist, measurer, nonmember, mesomorph, ladino, mestizo, middlebrow, miracle man, miracle worker, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, monolingual, mother hen, mouse, maimer, mangler, mutilator, namer, namesake, neglecter, neighbor, neighbour, neutral, nondescript, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonpartizan, nonperson, unperson, nonresident, nonsmoker, nude, nude person, nurser, occultist, optimist, orphan, ostrich, ejector, ouster, outcaste, outdoorsman, owner, possessor, coddler, mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler, pansexual, excuser, forgiver, pardoner, partner, party, passer, personage, personification, perspirer, sweater, philosopher, chooser, picker, selector, pisser, urinator, contriver, deviser, planner, player, posturer, powderer, preserver, propositus, public relations person, pursuer, pussycat, quarter, quitter, radical, realist, rectifier, carrottop, red-header, redhead, redheader, registrant, allayer, comforter, reliever, repeater, recoverer, rescuer, saver, rester, controller, restrainer, revenant, have, rich person, wealthy person, right-hander, right hander, righthander, riser, romper, roundhead, ruler, swayer, rusher, scientist, scratcher, mediocrity, second-rater, cloud seeder, seeder, quester, searcher, seeker, segregate, romanticist, sentimentalist, sex object, sex symbol, mover and shaker, shaker, showman, signatory, signer, simple, simpleton, six-footer, skidder, slider, slipper, slave, slave, sleepyhead, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, sniveler, snuffer, snuffler, socialiser, socializer, sort, sounding board, sphinx, expectorator, spitter, sport, sprawler, spurner, squint-eye, squinter, smotherer, stifler, stigmatic, stigmatist, stooper, stranger, struggler, case, guinea pig, subject, supernumerary, surrenderer, yielder, survivalist, survivor, suspect, tagger, tagger, tapper, tempter, termer, scourge, terror, threat, testate, testator, scrag, skin and bones, thin person, third-rater, thrower, tiger, totemist, toucher, transfer, transferee, transexual, transsexual, cross-dresser, transvestite, attempter, essayer, trier, turner, tyrant, opener, undoer, unfastener, untier, user, vanisher, dupe, victim, victorian, visionary, visually impaired person, waiter, waker, walk-in, needer, wanter, ward, warrior, watcher, doormat, weakling, wuss, weasel, squirmer, wiggler, wriggler, winker, withholder, witness, worldling, yawner
Derived form adjective mortal1
1. mortal(a = adj.all) - subject to death; "mortal beings"
Antonym: immortal
Derived forms noun mortal1, noun mortality1
2. mortal(s = adj.all) deadly - involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins"
3. mortal(s = adj.all) - unrelenting and deadly; "mortal enemy"
4. mortal(s = adj.all) deadly, deathly - causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
1. Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal. [1913 Webster]
2. Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin. [1913 Webster]
3. Fatally vulnerable; vital. [1913 Webster]
"Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work." [1913 Webster]
4. Of or pertaining to the time of death. [1913 Webster]
"Safe in the hand of one disposing Power,
Or in the natal or the mortal hour." [1913 Webster]
5. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly. [1913 Webster]
"The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright." [1913 Webster]
6. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power. [1913 Webster]
"The voice of God
To mortal ear is dreadful." [1913 Webster]
7. Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
A being subject to death; a human being; man. Tickell. [1913 Webster]
mortal, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 (of a living being, esp. a human) subject to death.
2 (often foll. by to) causing death; fatal.
3 (of a battle) fought to the death.
4 associated with death (mortal agony).
5 (of an enemy) implacable.
6 (of pain, fear, an affront, etc.) intense, very serious.
7 colloq. a very great (in a mortal hurry). b long and tedious (for two mortal hours).
8 colloq. conceivable, imaginable (every mortal thing; of no mortal use).
--n.
1 a mortal being, esp. a human.
2 joc. a person described in some specified way (a thirsty mortal).
Idiom:
mortal sin Theol. a grave sin that is regarded as depriving the soul of divine grace.
Derivative:
mortally adv.
Etymology:
ME f. OF mortal, mortel or L mortalis f. mors mortis death
N transience, transientness, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly, spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement, interregnum, velocity, suddenness, changeableness, transient, transient boarder, transient guest, transient, transitory, transitive, passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral, flying, fugacious, fugitive, shifting, slippery, spasmodic, instantaneous, momentaneous, temporal, temporary, provisional, provisory, deciduous, perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden, momentary, temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time, awhile, en passant, in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip, one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu! fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour!, dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion.
N weariness, defatigation, lassitude, drowsiness, disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness, satiety, taedium vitae, boredom, ennui, wearisomeness, tediousness, dull work, tedium, monotony, twice-told tale, bore, buttonholer, proser, wet blanket, pill, stiff, heavy hours, the enemy (time), wearying, wearing, wearisome, tiresome, irksome, uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat, prosy, prosing, slow, soporific, somniferous, disgusting, unenjoyed, weary, tired, drowsy, uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life, sick of, wearily, usque ad nauseam, time hanging heavily on one's hands, toujours perdrix, crambe repetita.
N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.
N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?, man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.