adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   As if dead; depressed archaic, literary

   "How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?"

Adjective

1. 1
   utterly cast down wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

dejecteddejectedlifelessspiritless

Example

More examples

"How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?"

Etymology

From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.

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