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

Christopher Hendrickson of Vista was mortally wounded about 1 p.m. Thursday when his Suzuki motorcycle collided with a Subaru hatchback on Hacienda Drive, just south of state Route 78 and east of College Boulevard, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office. —City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2024

The 14-year-old girl was found mortally wounded at the scene and was taken to Oishei Children's Hospital in Buffalo, where she was pronounced dead, police said. —Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 5 May 2024

The fellowship was created in 2016 in memory of Bolles, a Republic investigative reporter who was mortally wounded when a dynamite bomb exploded under his car on June 2, 1976. —Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2024

About two minutes after initially spotting then following him, Lemos fired two shots at Perez, mortally wounding him. —Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024

There aren’t a thousand surprises here, in a film that sometimes telegraphs rather than foreshadows: Kira discovers, early in the film, that her white mice have attacked one another overnight, leaving some mortally injured. —Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024

My stepfather was mortally injured in a home invasion in Idabel, Oklahoma, the county seat, in 2004. —The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023

What if the drone operator locates a deer that was hit but not mortally wounded? —Hayden Sammak, Outdoor Life, 8 Feb. 2024

The mission is to get Trump convicted of some felonies, mortally wounding his chances of beating even an opponent as weak as President Biden. —Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 6 Jan. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1