Word Meanings - MORTALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded. 2. In the manner of a mortal or of mortal beings. I was mortally brought forth. Shak. 3. In an extreme degree; to the point of dying or causing death; desperately; as, mortally

Additional info about word: MORTALLY

1. In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded. 2. In the manner of a mortal or of mortal beings. I was mortally brought forth. Shak. 3. In an extreme degree; to the point of dying or causing death; desperately; as, mortally jealous. Adrian mortally envied poets, painters, and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel. Bacon.

Related words: (words related to MORTALLY)

• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHAGY
  Difficulty in swallowing.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• POINT
  puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See Pungent, and cf. Puncto, 1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin. 2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort
• DYNAMOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• DYSODILE
  An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• FORTHY
  Therefore. Spenser.
• DYNASTIC
  Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings. Motley.
• DYNAMIC; DYNAMICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force. Science, as well as history, has its past to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine. J. Martineau.
• TODDY
  1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. 2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. Note: Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and
• LARDY
  Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard.
• DISCANDY
  To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.
• BLADY
  Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• DEEDY
  Industrious; active. Cowper.
• ROWDY
  One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.
• TETRADYMITE
  A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Calles also telluric bismuth.
• UNBODY
  To free from the body; to disembody. Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse. Spenser.
• KIDDYISH
  Frolicsome; sportive.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• EPIDIDYMITIS
  Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.
• DIDYM
  See DIDYMIUM
• SHODDY FEVER
  A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.