'Fatal' definitions:
Definition of 'fatal'
From: WordNet
adjective
Bringing death [ant: nonfatal]
adjective
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" [syn: fateful, fatal]
adjective
(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" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]
adjective
Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events" [syn: fatal, fateful]
Definition of 'Fatal'
From: GCIDE
- Fatal \Fa"tal\, a. [L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See Fate.]
- 1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- These thing are fatal and necessary. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
- It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fatal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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