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- pronunciation:
- mor
t
 l
- parts of speech:
- adjective, noun
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective, noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
subject to death; destined to die.
No one lives forever; we are all mortal.- synonyms:
- perishable
- antonyms:
- deathless, immortal, undying
- similar words:
- ephemeral, impermanent
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| definition 2: |
of or pertaining to humanity or human beings; human.
- synonyms:
- human
- antonyms:
- divine
- similar words:
- bodily, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, tellurian, terrestrial
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| definition 3: |
pertaining to or accompanying death or dying.
her mortal agony- similar words:
- deathbed, dying
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| definition 4: |
causing or likely to cause death; fatal.
a mortal injurymortal combat- synonyms:
- deadly, fatal, killing, lethal
- similar words:
- internecine, malignant, suicidal, terminal, vital
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| definition 5: |
of great and unrelenting severity; terrible; inexorable.
mortal fear- synonyms:
- inexorable, terrible
- similar words:
- enormous, excruciating, extreme, grave, great, severe, unrelenting
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| related words: |
fatal |
adverb + (adj.)mortal
merely
(adj.)mortal
+ noun
ache,
beauty,
being,
blow,
body,
boundary,
coil,
combat,
companion,
courtesy,
creature,
danger,
deer,
destiny,
dread,
ego,
enemy,
error,
fear,
flesh,
foe,
forsake,
illness,
injury,
insult,
limitation,
lock,
lover,
man,
offense,
pain,
panic,
passion,
peril,
prophet,
realm,
remains,
self,
sickness,
sin,
soul,
struggle,
terror,
thought,
threat,
treason,
vulnerability,
wizard,
wound
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
a human being.
- synonyms:
- earthling, human, individual, person, soul, tellurian
- antonyms:
- immortal
- similar words:
- creature, man, terrestrial, woman
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| related words: |
being, human, life, person |
adjective + (n.)mortal
common, fallible, fellow, impossible, lesser, mere, ordinary, poor, puny, rash, self-conscious, unlike
verb + (n.)mortal
attach, commit, demand
(n.)mortal
+ verb
dance, dream, exist, remain
noun + (n.)mortal
affair, angel, earth, existence, fool, ghost, means, reach, rest, spirit
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| derivation: |
mortally (adv.) |
The word mortal
contains the following parts:
mort
Latin
root
that means death
  Example words:
amortize, immortal, immortality, mortal, mortality, mortgage, mortician, mortify, mortmain, mortuary, postmortem
- synonyms:
- necr, necro
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, agricultural, ancestral, annual, arboreal, artificial, astral, bacterial, biblical, biographical, brutal, capital, central, ceremonial, chemical, classical, clinical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continental, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, fluvial, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, guttural, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, ineffectual, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, pastoral, personal, philosophical, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, political, potential, quizzical, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, sacrificial, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, territorial, theatrical, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, veridical, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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