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

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

When Yi-kyung is mortally wounded in a fire, Yi-su turns her into a monster, and Hyun-su brings her back to her mortal form. —Kayti Burt, TIME, 19 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1