Mortal vs Transitory - What's the difference?
mortal | transitory | Synonyms |
Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :
Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.11:
Fatally vulnerable; vital.
* Milton
Of or relating to the time of death.
* Alexander Pope
Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
* Dryden
* mortal enemy
Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
* Milton
Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
(UK, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
A human; someone susceptible to death.
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*1596 , (William Shakespeare), (w, A Midsummer Night's Dream)
*:Lord what fools these mortals be!
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*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
Lasting only a short time; temporary.
* 1704 , , Section I - The Introduction,
* 1839 , , Chapter 38,
* 1922 , , Book Three, Chapter II: A Matter of Aesthetics,
(legal, of an action) That may be brought in any county; opposed to local .
As adjectives the difference between mortal and transitory
is that mortal is susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal while transitory is lasting only a short time; temporary.As a noun mortal
is a human; someone susceptible to death.mortal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.
- Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist / A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […].
- Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.
- Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, / Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
- The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.
- mortal''' wit or knowledge; '''mortal power
- The voice of God / To mortal ear is dreadful.
- a sermon lasting two mortal hours
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- Let's go out and get mortal !
Derived terms
* mortality * mortal sinSynonyms
* (causing death) fatal, lethal, banefulAntonyms
* (susceptible to death) immortal, everlasting * (of or relating to death) natalNoun
(en noun)Antonyms
* immortaltransitory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Secondly, that the materials being very transitory , have suffered much from inclemencies of air, especially in these north-west regions.
- Quite unconscious of the demonstrations of their amorous neighbour, or their effects upon the susceptible bosom of her mama, Kate Nickleby had, by this time, begun to enjoy a settled feeling of tranquillity and happiness, to which, even in occasional and transitory glimpses, she had long been a stranger.
- For a moment she paused by the taxi-stand and watched them--wondering that but a few years before she had been of their number, ever setting out for a radiant Somewhere, always just about to have that ultimate passionate adventure for which the girls' cloaks were delicate and beautifully furred, for which their cheeks were painted and their hearts higher than the transitory dome of pleasure that would engulf them, coiffure, cloak, and all.
- (Blackstone)
- (Bouvier)