The difference between Baneful and Mortal
When used as adjectives, baneful means exceedingly harmful, whereas mortal means susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound.
Mortal is also noun with the meaning: a human.
Mortal is also adverb with the meaning: mortally.
check bellow for the other definitions of Baneful and Mortal
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Baneful as an adjective:
Exceedingly harmful; causing harm, death, ruin.
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Baneful as an adjective:
Deadly or sinister.
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Baneful as an adjective:
Portending disaster.
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Baneful as an adjective (archaic):
Poisonous.
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Mortal as an adjective:
Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
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Mortal as an adjective:
Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
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Mortal as an adjective:
Punishable by death.
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Mortal as an adjective:
Fatally vulnerable.
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Mortal as an adjective:
Of or relating to the time of death.
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Mortal as an adjective:
Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
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Mortal as an adjective:
Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
Examples:
"mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power"
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Mortal as an adjective:
Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
Examples:
"a sermon lasting two mortal hours"
"rfquotek Sir Walter Scott"
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Mortal as an adjective (UK, slang):
Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
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Mortal as a noun:
A human; someone susceptible to death.
Examples:
"Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal."
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Mortal as an adverb (colloquial):
Mortally; enough to cause death.
Examples:
"It's mortal cold out there."