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1. (adj.) fatal
causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly.
2. fatal
causing destruction, misfortune, or ruin; calamitous:
The closing of the plant was fatal to the town.
3. fatal
decisively important; fateful:
The fatal hour was near.
4. fatal
proceeding from fate; inevitable:
a fatal series of events.
5. fatal
pertaining to or concerned with fate.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < L)
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1. (adj) fatal
bringing death
2. (adj) fateful, fatal
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"
3. (adj) black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
(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"
4. (adj) fatal, fateful
controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
"a fatal series of events"
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1. (adjective) fatal
causing death
a fatal illness/accident; His injuries could be fatal.
2. fatal
having very bad results
to make a fatal mistake/error/decision etc.; an explosion that fatally wounded him; a fatally flawed decision
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1. (adj) fatal
proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable
2. (adj) fatal
foreboding death or great disaster
3. (adj) fatal
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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Sense: causing death
a fatal accident.
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 Afrikaans: noodlottig, dodelik |
 Arabic: مُميت، قاتِل |
 Bulgarian: смъртоносен |
 Brazilian: fatal |
 Czech: smrtelný |
 German: tödlich |
 Danish: dødelig |
 Greek: θανάσιμος, θανατηφόρος |
 Spanish: mortal |
 Estonian: surmav |
 Farsi: مرگبار |
 Finnish: hengenvaarallinen |
 French: fatal |
 Hebrew: קַטלָנִי |
 Hindi: घातक |
 Croatian: fatalan, koban |
 Hungarian: halálos |
 Indonesian: fatal |
 Icelandic: banvænn |
 Italian: fatale |
 Japanese: 致命的な |
 Korean: 치명적인 |
 Lithuanian: mirtinas |
 Latvian: nāvīgs |
 Malay: membawa maut |
 Dutch: dodelijk |
 Norwegian: dødelig |
 Polish: śmiertelny |
 Persian: مرگبار |
 Pashto: مهلك، وژونكى |
 Portuguese: fatal |
 Romanian: fatal |
 Russian: смертельный |
 Slovak: smrteľný |
 Slovenian: poguben |
 Serbian: smrtonosan |
 Swedish: dödlig |
 Thai: ซึ่งทำให้ถึงตาย |
 Turkish: öldürücü, ölümcül |
 Taiwanese: 致命的 |
 Ukrainian: фатальний |
 Urdu: مہلک |
 Vietnamese: chí tử |
 Chinese: 致命的 |
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