mortal
adjective
[ ˈmɔːt(ə)l ]
• (of a living human being, often in contrast to a divine being) subject to death.
• "all men are mortal"
Similar:
perishable,
physical,
bodily,
corporeal,
fleshly,
corporal,
earthly,
human,
earth-born,
impermanent,
temporal,
worldly,
transient,
ephemeral,
passing,
sublunary,
• causing or liable to cause death; fatal.
• "a mortal disease"
• denoting a grave sin that is regarded as depriving the soul of divine grace.
• "she had committed a mortal sin"
• conceivable or imaginable.
• "he knew every mortal thing you did"
mortal
noun
• a human being subject to death, as opposed to a divine being.
• "capacities only possible of God rather than mortals"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin mortalis, from mors, mort- ‘death’.
