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
In the film’s climactic final battle, Maximus kills Commodus but is mortally wounded himself.
—
Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
In pages suffused with both fury and tenderness, his memoir-manifesto delineates a world in which the political remains mortally, maddeningly inseparable from the personal.
—New York Times, 8 July 2024
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
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
In pages suffused with both fury and tenderness, his memoir-manifesto delineates a world in which the political remains mortally, maddeningly inseparable from the personal.
—New York Times, 8 July 2024
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
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“Mortally.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mortally. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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