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fatal
[ feyt-l ]
adjective
a fatal accident;
a fatal dose of poison.
Antonyms: life-giving
- causing destruction, misfortune, ruin, or failure:
The withdrawal of funds was fatal to the project.
Synonyms: devastating, catastrophic, calamitous, disastrous, ruinous
- 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.
- Obsolete. prophetic.
fatal
/ ˈfeɪtəl /
adjective
- resulting in or capable of causing death
a fatal accident
- bringing ruin; disastrous
- decisively important; fateful
- decreed by fate; destined; inevitable
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Other Words From
- fatal·ness noun
- non·fatal adjective
- non·fatal·ly adverb
- non·fatal·ness noun
- quasi-fatal adjective
- quasi-fatal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of fatal1
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Example Sentences
Nor should we ever assume that weather alone, however extreme, should be fatal to a commercial flight.
Two years ago, a Party apparatchik surveyed the site of a fatal traffic accident… with a smile on his face.
They are mean, unhappy and inspired only by their fatal selfishness.
According to a police source, that fax came in at 2:46 p.m.—literally a after before the fatal bullets flew.
Another American officer, Capt. Edwin Glenn, was convicted of cruelty in a non-fatal turn-of-the-century case in the Philippines.
It is here that the Communist regime in Russia has encountered its most fatal difficulty.
It was a fatal error, for though the Spanish people might despise their King, they were intensely proud of their nationality.
When there wanted only a week to the fatal day, Michael's hope of meeting the note of hand was slighter than ever.
That is a very lofty, poetical, and gratifying conception, but it is open to one fatal objection—it is not true.
The meeting took place within twenty-four hours; unfortunately the result was fatal.
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