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

She was mortally wounded and lay on the ground nearly an hour before tactical officers were able to secure her rescue. —Sharon Bernstein, Sacramento Bee, 24 Feb. 2025

The father of a 6-day-old baby found mortally wounded on the living room floor of a Spring Valley home was arrested on suspicion of murder Wednesday, officials said. —Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025

Meanwhile, episode one of season three picks up with adult Van (Lauren Ambrose) now staying with Taissa (Tawney Cypress) amid her battle with cancer and the latter’s separation from her wife, but Ambrose played coy about any sort of final destination for her character, mortally or romantically. —Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025

Their closeness deepened when Mahler fell mortally ill. —Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1