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

But Chmerkovskiy's assertion that Sheen was once mortally threatened by a fan, and that he was subsequently rescued by the DWTS-pro wife of his ex-wife's former DWTS partner is a revelation. —Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2024

The dollar has been mortally wounded by a collapse in trust of American institutions. —Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

Christine Banfield was discovered mortally wounded after being stabbed in her Herndon, Va., home on February 23, 2023. —Christine Pelisek, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024

But Thompson’s 20-month-old grandson, Tyree Halsell, who was still sitting in the car, was shot in the head and mortally wounded. —Todd Feathers, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1