Lethal vs. Mortiferous — What's the Difference?

Sufficient to cause death

Causing spiritual death.

Causing or capable of causing death

Causing physical death; deadly, fatal, lethal.

Extremely harmful; devastating

Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb.

Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.

Any weapon that causes death.

(genetics) An allele that causes the death of the organism that carries it.

(chemistry) One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.

One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.

Deadly; mortal; fatal.

Of an instrument of certain death;