fatal

Plural: fatals

Adjective

• Causing or capable of causing death; destructive.
• 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.

Examples

• a fatal error; a fatal exception
• a fatal wound; a fatal disease; that fatal day; a fatal mistake
• His opponent’s last play was a FATAL blow to his hopes of winning the Scrabble game.

Synonyms

black, calamitous, disastrous, fateful, apocalyptic, augurous, avoidless, baleful, bodeful, boding, brooding, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, certain, deadly, debacular, destructive, devastating, dire, disadventurous, eradicative, extirpative, fatal, 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

nonfatal

Anagrams of fatal