fatal
Meanings
Plural: fatals
Adjective
- bringing death
Adjective Satellite
- having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; - Saturday Rev
- "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; ; ; ; - Charles Darwin; - Douglas MacArthur
- "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"
- "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"
- controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
- "a fatal series of events"
Adj
- Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.
- Foreboding death or great disaster.
- Causing death or destruction.
- Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.
Noun
- A fatality; an event that leads to death.
- A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French fatal, from Latin fātālis (“fatal”).
Synonyms
apocalyptic, augurous, avoidless, baleful, black, bodeful, boding, brooding, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, certain, deadly, debacular, destructive, devastating, dire, disadventurous, disastrous, eradicative, extirpative, fatal, fateful, foreboding, foregone, harmful, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, impreventable, inauspicate, inauspicious, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, inexorable, irresistible, lethal, mortal, necessary, nefastous, omenic, ominous, pernicious, portentous, predictable, presageful, presagious, prodigious, ruinous, sinister, star-crossed, sullen, terminal, unavoidable, unescapable, unforestallable, unpreventable, woeful
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
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