mortally

adverb

mor·​tal·​ly ˈmȯr-tᵊl-ē 

1

: in a deadly or fatal manner : to death

mortally wounded

2

: to an extreme degree : intensely

mortally afraid

Synonyms

• achingly
• almighty
• archly
• awful
• awfully
• badly
• beastly
• blisteringly
• bone
• colossally
• corking
• cracking
• damn
• damned
• dang
• deadly
• desperately
• eminently
• enormously
• especially
• ever
• exceedingly
• exceeding
• extra
• extremely
• fabulously
• fantastically
• far
• fiercely
• filthy
• frightfully
• full
• greatly
• heavily
• highly
• hugely
• immensely
• incredibly
• intensely
• jolly
• majorly
• mightily
• mighty
• monstrous [chiefly dialect]
• most
• much
• particularly
• passing
• rattling
• real
• really
• right
• roaring
• roaringly
• seriously
• severely
• so
• sore
• sorely
• spanking
• specially
• stinking
• such
• super
• supremely
• surpassingly
• terribly
• that
• thumping
• too
• unco
• uncommonly
• vastly
• very
• vitally
• way
• whacking
• wicked
• wildly

Examples of mortally in a Sentence

I'm mortally certain that I've seen that guy before.

Recent Examples on the Web

But Thompson’s 20-month-old grandson, Tyree Halsell, who was still sitting in the car, was shot in the head and mortally wounded. —Todd Feathers, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024

Anatomy charts were used to teach prisoners the most effective ways to mortally wound a person, according to trial testimony. —Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2024

Social media is brimming with their desperate pleas, and only a few get what amounts to a lucky ticket for the mortally unlucky: Countries willing to take pediatric amputees from Gaza are doing so in relatively small numbers. —Longreads, 6 Aug. 2024

Delegates and convention speakers frequently referred to divine intervention as being the reason Trump was not mortally wounded. —Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1