mortal

/ˈmȯr-tᵊl/

Middle English, from Anglo-French mortel, mortal, from Latin mortalis, from mort-, mors death

adjective

  1. causing or having caused death : fatal

  2. subject to death

  3. possible, conceivable

a mortal injury

deadly mortal fatal lethal mean causing or capable of causing death. deadly applies to an established or very likely cause of death. mortal implies that death has occurred or is inevitable.

adverb

  1. mortally

noun

  1. a human being