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Definition of mortal : 1. A being subject to death; a human being; man.
2. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
3. Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
4. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
5. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.
6. Of or pertaining to the time of death.
7. Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
8. Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.

Synonyms:

soulfulness, eternal, venomous, deathlike, precarious, grand, baneful, unpardonable, person, ending, homo, last, psyche, unmerciful, fatal, thinkable, earthly, body, poisonous, human being, creature, beings, individual, conceivable, soul, live, imaginable, frail, extreme, fugacious, merciless, pernicious, deathly, likely, possible, personage, being, party, virulent, pestilent, earthborn, deadly, lethal, man, life, perpetual, malignant, somebody, someone, vital

folk, human, familial, communal, popular, social, public

flickering, restless, temporary, short-lived, transitory, fleeting, evanescent, mutable, temporal, brief, transient, impermanent, passing, flitting, cursory, rootless, fading, short-term, momentary, fickle, instantaneous, volatile, ephemeral, changeable, shifting

Usage examples:

• " The boys always had a mortal itchin' to get their fingers on the papers in the case. - "A Daughter of the Land", Gene Stratton-Porter.
• Miss Stuart ran on: The idea of living under the same roof for two mortal months with the young man you are going to marry! - "A Terrible Secret", May Agnes Fleming.
• It is to be hoped that Congress will now order all enlistments to be for the war, else we shall soon be in a mortal bad way. - "Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker", S. Weir Mitchell.