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Difference Between Mortal and Immortal

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Mortal

Liable or subject to death; not immortal
Mortal beings.

Immortal

Not subject to death
Immortal deities.
The immortal soul.

Mortal

Of or relating to humans as being subject to death
"When we have shuffled off this mortal coil" (Shakespeare).

Immortal

Never to be forgotten; everlasting
Immortal words.

Mortal

Causing death; fatal
A mortal wound.
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Immortal

Of or relating to immortality.

Mortal

Fought to the death
Mortal combat.

Immortal

(Biology) Capable of indefinite growth or division. Used of cells in culture.

Mortal

Relentlessly hostile; implacable
A mortal enemy.

Immortal

One not subject to death.
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Mortal

Of great intensity or severity; dire
Mortal terror.

Immortal

One whose fame is enduring.

Mortal

Conceivable; imaginable
No mortal reason for us to go.

Immortal

Not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying. Category:en:Immortality

Mortal

Used as an intensive
A mortal fool.

Immortal

Never to be forgotten; that merits being always remembered.
His immortal words

Mortal

A human.

Immortal

Connected with or relating to immortality.

Mortal

Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.

Immortal

(obsolete) Exceedingly great; excessive; grievous.

Mortal

Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).

Immortal

One who is not susceptible to death.

Mortal

By death.

Immortal

A member of an elite regiment of the Persian army.

Mortal

Vulnerable.

Immortal

A member of the Académie française.

Mortal

Of or relating to the time of death.

Immortal

(Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon.

Mortal

As if with power to kill; deathly.
Mortal enemy

Immortal

Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance.
Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible.
For my soul, what can it do to that,Being a thing immortal as itself?

Mortal

; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
Mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power

Immortal

Connected with, or pertaining to immortality.
I have immortal longings in me.

Mortal

Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
A sermon lasting two mortal hours

Immortal

Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame.
One of the few, immortal names,That were not born to die.

Mortal

Very drunk.

Immortal

Great; excessive; grievous.

Mortal

(religion) Of a sin: involving the penalty of spiritual death, rather than merely venial.

Immortal

One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation.

Mortal

A human; someone susceptible to death.
Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal.

Immortal

A person (such as an author) of enduring fame;
Shakespeare is one of the immortals

Mortal

(colloquial) Mortally; enough to cause death.
It's mortal cold out there.

Immortal

Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

Mortal

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

Immortal

Not subject to death

Mortal

Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.

Mortal

Fatally vulnerable; vital.
Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.

Mortal

Of or pertaining to the time of death.
Safe in the hand of one disposing Power,Or in the natal or the mortal hour.

Mortal

Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.

Mortal

Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.
The voice of GodTo mortal ear is dreadful.

Mortal

Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.

Mortal

A being subject to death; a human being; man.

Mortal

A human being;
There was too much for one person to do

Mortal

Subject to death;
Mortal beings

Mortal

Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death;
The seven deadly sins

Mortal

Unrelenting and deadly;
Mortal enemy

Mortal

Causing or capable of causing death;
A fatal accident
A deadly enemy
Mortal combat
A mortal illness

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