1. Qui tue.
2. Fatal. Coup mortel.
3. (Au figuré) Ennuyeux. Discours mortel.
1. (Of a disease) Having a rapid course and violent effect.
2. (Theology) Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; SYN. mortal.
3. Causing or capable of causing death; SYN. deathly, mortal.
4. Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; SYN. venomous, virulent.
5. Of an instrument of certain death; SYN. lethal.
Worldly, material, of the earth
Of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven.
ETYM Latin lethalis, letalis, from lethum, letum, death: cf. French léthal.
Deadly; mortal; fatal.
ETYM French mortel, Latin mortalis, from mors, mortis, death, from moriri 8die; akin to Eng. murder. Related to Murder, Filemot, Mere a lake, Mortgage.
1. Subject to death.
2. Unrelenting and deadly.
Homme.