Mortal vs. Immortal — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Mortal and Immortal
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Definitions
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