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adjective causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly: a fatal accident; a fatal dose of poison.
causing destruction, misfortune, ruin, or failure: The withdrawal of funds was fatal to the project.
decisively important; fateful: The fatal day finally arrived.
proceeding from or decreed by fate; inevitable: a fatal series of events.
influencing or concerned with fate; fatalistic.
Obsolete . condemned by fate; doomed.
SEE MORE SEE LESS Origin of fatal First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English or directly from Old French, from Latin fātālis “ordained by fate, decreed”; see origin at fate, -al1
SYNONYMS FOR fatal 2 ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, devastating.
4 predestined, foreordained.
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synonym study for fatal 1 . Fatal, deadly, lethal, mortal apply to something that has caused or is capable of causing death. Fatal may refer to either the future or the past; in either case, it emphasizes inevitability and the inescapable—the disastrous, whether death or dire misfortune: The accident was fatal. Such a mistake would be fatal. Deadly looks to the future, and suggests that which is likely to cause death (though not inevitably so): a deadly poison, disease. Like deadly, lethal looks to the future but, like many other words of Latin origin, suggests a more technical usage: a lethal dose; a gas that is lethal. Mortal looks to the past and refers to death that has actually occurred: He received a mortal wound. The disease proved to be mortal.
OTHER WORDS FROM fatal fa·tal·ness, noun non·fa·tal, adjective non·fa·tal·ly, adverb non·fa·tal·ness, noun
quasi-fatal, adjective qua·si-fa·tal·ly, adverb
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WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH fatal 1. fatal , fateful 2. fatal , fetal Words nearby fatal fast-twitch, fastuous, fast worker, fat, Fatah, fatal , fatalism, fatalist, fatalistic, fatality, fatality rate
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Two years ago, a Party apparatchik surveyed the site of a fatal traffic accident… with a smile on his face.
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They are mean, unhappy and inspired only by their fatal selfishness.
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According to a police source, that fax came in at 2:46 p.m.—literally a after before the fatal bullets flew.
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With one powerful sweep of his paddle he can instantly turn the canoe, when only a foot distant from fatal destruction.
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How fatal then, how tormenting, how intolerable, must her reverse of fortune be!
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We have, therefore, to draw the fatal conclusion that Switzerland is doomed should capitalist imperialism endure.
The Forerunners | Romain Rolland
The Government of England will never rise to so exalted a pitch of glory, nor will its end be so fatal .
Letters on England | Voltaire
Then, again, numerous males fall victims to the jealous fury of their own sex, which leads to fierce and fatal battles.
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British Dictionary definitions for fatal adjective resulting in or capable of causing death a fatal accident
bringing ruin; disastrous
decisively important; fateful
decreed by fate; destined; inevitable
Word Origin for fatal C14: from Old French fatal or Latin fātālis , from fātum , see fate
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Words related to fatal catastrophic, calamitous, mortal, cataclysmic, disastrous, fateful, malignant, virulent, poisonous, ruinous, destructive, incurable, inevitable, crucial, decisive, baleful, baneful, deathly, final, ill-fated
Medical definitions for fatal adj. Causing or capable of causing death.
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