English-Dutch translations for mortal

• dodelijk
• sterfelijk
  De mens blijft niettemin sterfelijk. Humans are, nevertheless, mortal.
  De bekende Franse schrijver Paul Valéry heeft in de jaren dertig een beroemde zin geformuleerd, en nu citeer ik: "Nu weten de beschavingen dat zij sterfelijk zijn." In the 1930s, the celebrated French writer Paul Valéry, coined the famous phrase, which said, and I quote, that civilisations are now aware of their mortality.
• sterveling
  Dit lijkt me geen goede zaak voor de geloofwaardigheid en acceptatie van de nieuwe munt door de gewone sterveling. To my mind, this is a serious blow for the credibility of the new currency and for its acceptance by ordinary mortals.

Definition of mortal

• Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal .
• Punishable by death
• Of or relating to the time of death
• Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly
• Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal
• Very painful or tedious; wearisome
• Very drunk; wasted; smashed
• Of a sin: involving the penalty of spiritual death, rather than merely venial
• A human; someone susceptible to death
• Mortally; enough to cause death

Examples

• mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power
• a sermon lasting two mortal hours
• Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal
• Its mortal cold out there

Related words

• immortal
• immortality
• mortality
• immortalize
• immortalization
• mortally
• immortally
• immortalise
• perimortal