Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: black, calamitous, deadly, deathly, decisive, disastrous, fateful, inevitable, lethal, mortal, terminal, unfortunate

Antonyms: nonfatal

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