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

As Wood, mortally wounded, cried out, Ervin rushed forward to help him — and, while doing so, was fatally shot by enemy fire. —Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 6 July 2024

Cops found the mortally 8-year-old boy in the apartment, officials said. —Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 5 July 2024

Instead, Collier has written a text mortally wounded by incoherence, error, and overconfident leaps to baseless conclusions. —Justin Sandefur, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2013

Police found Henderson mortally wounded several stops later, when the train pulled into the Franklin Ave.-Medgar Evers College stop. —Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1