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Fatal Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Fatal? [adj] controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events" [adj] having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived" [adj] bringing death [adj] (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Fatal: black \| calamitous \| deadly \| deathly \| decisive \| disastrous \| fateful \| inevitable \| lethal \| mortal \| terminal \| unfortunate Related Terms \| Find terms related to Fatal: accidental \| adventitious \| aleatory \| appointed \| approaching \| awe-inspiring \| badly off \| baleful \| baneful \| black \| brutal \| calamitous \| casual \| casualty \| cataclysmal \| cataclysmic \| catastrophic \| causeless \| chance \| chancy \| coming \| consuming \| consumptive \| contingent \| damaging \| deadliness \| deadly \| death \| death-bringing \| deathful \| deathly \| decreed \| demolishing \| demolitionary \| depredatory \| depressed \| desired \| desolating \| destinal \| destined \| destroying \| destructive \| determined \| devastating \| devoted \| dicey \| dire \| disastrous \| donsie \| doomed \| doomful \| dreadful \| earnest \| emergent \| essential \| eventual \| evil-starred \| extrapolated \| fatality \| fated \| fateful \| fatidic \| feral \| final \| fluky \| foredoomed \| foreordained \| formidable \| forthcoming \| fortuitous \| fortuneless \| fratricidal \| funest \| future \| futuristic \| grave \| grievous \| hapless \| harmful \| heavy \| hereafter \| hoped-for \| iffy \| ill off \| ill-fated \| ill-starred \| imminent \| imposing \| in adverse circumstances \| in store \| in the cards \| inauspicious \| incidental \| indeterminate \| ineluctable \| inescapable \| inevitable \| internecine \| killing \| later \| lethal \| lethality \| luckless \| malefic \| maleficent \| malign \| malignancy \| malignant \| marked \| mischievous \| mortal \| mortality \| murderous \| nearing \| necessary \| nihilist \| nihilistic \| noxiousness \| ominous \| ordained \| out of luck \| pernicious \| perniciousness \| pestilent \| pestilential \| planet-struck \| planned \| plotted \| poisonous \| poisonousness \| portentous \| predestined \| predetermined \| predicted \| preordained \| probable \| projected \| prophesied \| prospective \| ravaging \| risky \| ruining \| ruinous \| sad \| savage \| self-destructive \| serious \| short of luck \| sinister \| sober \| solemn \| star-crossed \| subversionary \| subversive \| suicidal \| terminal \| to come \| to-be \| toxic \| tragic \| ultimate \| unavoidable \| unblessed \| uncaused \| underprivileged \| undetermined \| unexpected \| unforeseeable \| unforeseen \| unfortunate \| unhappy \| unlooked-for \| unlucky \| unpredictable \| unprosperous \| unprovidential \| vandalic \| vandalish \| vandalistic \| virulence \| virulent \| wasteful \| wasting \| weighty \| withering \| wreckful \| written See Also \| Fatal In Webster's Dictionary \Fa"tal\, a. [L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See {Fate}.] 1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. [R.] These thing are fatal and necessary. --Tillotson. It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. --Bacon. 2. Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.] That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours. --Shak. 3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.

Fatal Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fatal?

[adj] controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
[adj] having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
[adj] bringing death
[adj] (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

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Fatal In Webster's Dictionary

\Fa"tal\, a. [L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See
{Fate}.]
1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny;
   necessary; inevitable. [R.]

         These thing are fatal and necessary.  --Tillotson.

         It was fatal to the king to fight for his money.
                                               --Bacon.

2. Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.]

         That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing
         sung but death to us and ours.        --Shak.

3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive;
   calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal
   day; a fatal error.

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