Immortal vs Martial - What's the difference?
immortal | martial |
Not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.
Never to be forgotten; that merits being always remembered.
Connected with or relating to immortality.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Great; excessive; grievous.
One who is not susceptible to death.
A member of an elite regiment of the Persian army.
A member of the Académie française.
(Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon; a wizard.
* 1999 , "Corey Crawford", RECRUITING: [circle] Tazmania/Middle Sphere: Admin, Builders, Immortals'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.mud.announce )
Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.
* Dryden
Relating to or connected with the armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.
(comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly, soldierlike, warriorlike.
(medicine, chemistry, obsolete) Relating to, or containing, iron; chalybeate.
As an adjective immortal
is not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.As a noun immortal
is one who is not susceptible to death.As a proper noun martial is
narrowly applied to certain historic persons (but some of its foreign cognates are modern given names).immortal
English
Adjective
(-)- his immortal words
- I have immortal longings in me.
- (Hayward)
Synonyms
* undeadly * deathless * everlastingAntonyms
* mortalDerived terms
* immortality * immortallyNoun
(en noun)- Tazmania/Middle Sphere is in need of builders, admin, and immortals . Immortals do not need experiance(SIC).
External links
* (Persian Immortals) *martial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But peaceful kings, o'er martial people set, / Each other's poise and counterbalance are.
- martial preparations
- martial flowers: a reddish crystalline salt of iron
