About The Word Fatal
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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.
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