Definitions for mortal

mortal mor·tal

Spelling: [mawr-tl]
IPA: /ˈmɔr tl/

Mortal is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in mortal (almort).

Definitions for mortal

noun

  1. a human being.
  2. the condition of being subject to death.

adjective

  1. subject to death; having a transitory life:
  2. of or relating to human beings as subject to death; human:
  3. belonging to this world.
  4. deadly or implacable; relentless:
  5. severe, dire, grievous, or bitter:
  6. causing or liable to cause death; fatal:
  7. to the death:
  8. of or relating to death:
  9. involving spiritual death (opposed to venial):
  10. long and wearisome.
  11. extreme; very great:
  12. conceivable; possible:

Origin of mortal

1325-75; Middle English Latin mortālis, equivalent to mort- (stem of mors) death + -ālis -al1

Examples for mortal

They were fabled as seven sisters, and one lost her place in the sky by marrying a mortal.

While some of the patients had been seriously ill, many of them were not in mortal danger—at least not from their illnesses.

Yet each devoted his energies to matters of universal concern, and together they form a curious triptych on the mortal condition.

The stakes didn't seem high enough—largely because America no longer views Russia as its mortal enemy.

There's no good to mortal creature i' the bones or blood of her!

But the Al-Shabab attackers were only able to kill the mortal part of him that he had in common with everybody.

On the other far end of the spectrum, admittedly, is the idea that our first president might have unsprung the mortal coil.

Alas, the vanity of mortal projects, even when they centre in the grave!

Yet he knew that he was not fatally injured if he could stop that mortal drain of his wounds.

If it be drinkable by any manner of mortal, I must moisten my throat with it.

Word Value for mortal
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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