emphasis You can use mortal to emphasize that a feeling is extremely great or severe. When self-esteem is high, we lose our mortal fear of jealousy. + mortally mor·tal·ly Candida admits to having been `mortally embarrassed'
You can describe someone as a mortal when you want to say that they are an ordinary person. Tickets seem unobtainable to the ordinary mortal. = human
{s} deadly, fatal; pertaining to death; human; liable or subject to death; severe, grave; extreme, great (Slang)
If you refer to the fact that people are mortal, you mean that they have to die and cannot live for ever. A man is deliberately designed to be mortal. He grows, he ages, and he dies. immortal + mortality mor·tal·ity She has suddenly come face to face with her own mortality
Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin
You can use mortal to show that something is very serious or may cause death. The police were defending themselves and others against mortal danger + mortally mor·tal·ly He falls, mortally wounded