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1. Subject to death
   "mortal beings"
    
2. (theology) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
   "the seven mortal sins";
   - deadly
    
3. Unrelenting and deadly
   "mortal enemy"
    
4. Causing or capable of causing death
   "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness";
   - deadly, deathly

1. A human being
   "there was too much for one mortal to do";
   - person, individual, someone, somebody, soul

Derived forms: mortals

See also: earthborn, earthly, fatal, finite, irremissible, merciless, unmerciful, unpardonable

Type of: being, causal agency, causal agent, cause, organism

Antonym: immortal

Part of: people

Encyclopedia: Mortal