adjective
Etymology: from past participle of mortify
1. : insensible to worldly or sensual pleasures : having the appetites in subjection : ascetic , austere
the fame of his mortified life and supernatural gift of counsel — C.M.Rooney
could be no gainsaying his brilliant intellectual gifts or his mortified daily life — Times Literary Supplement
2. : affected by gangrene : gangrenous
3. obsolete : being without feeling : deadened
strike in their numbed and mortified bare arms pins, wooden pricks, nails — Shakespeare
4. archaic : decayed, rotten
in such a mortified condition, that no other people … would feed upon it — Tobias Smollett
5. : deeply embarrassed or humiliated
terribly mortified to find that his host had forgotten about him
Synonyms: see ashamed