Definitions for fatal
ˈfeɪt lfa·tal

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.8 / 4 votes

1. fataladjective

   bringing death

2. fateful, fataladjective

   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. black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fatefuladjective

   (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. fatal, fatefuladjective

   controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined

   "a fatal series of events"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. fatalnoun

   A fatality; an event that leads to death.

2. fatalnoun

   A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.

3. fataladjective

   Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.

4. fataladjective

   Foreboding death or great disaster.

5. fataladjective

   Causing death or destruction

6. fataladjective

   Causing a sudden end to a program.

7. Etymology: From fatalis.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FATALadjective

   Etymology: fatalis, Latin; fatal, French.

   1. Deadly; mortal; destructive; causing destruction.

   O fatal maid! thy marriage is endow’d
   With Phrygian, Latian, and Rutilian blood. John Dryden, Æn.

   A palsy in the brain is most dangerous; when it seizeth the heart, or organs of breathing, fatal. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.

   2. Proceeding by destiny; inevitable; necessary.

   Others delude their trouble by a graver way of reasoning, that these things are fatal and necessary, it being in vain to be troubled at that which we cannot help. John Tillotson, Sermons.

   3. Appointed by destiny.

   It was fatal to the king to fight for his money; and though he avoided to fight with enemies abroad, yet he was still enforced to fight for it with rebels at home. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

   Fatal course
   Had circled his full orb. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. v.

   It was
   Still fatal to stout Hudibras,
   In all his feats of arms, when least
   He dreamt of it, to prosper best. Hudibras, p. i. cant. 3.

   Behold the destin’d place of your abodes;
   For thus Anchises prophecy’d of old,
   And this our fatal place of rest foretold. John Dryden, Æn. b. vii.

   O race divine!
   For beauty still is fatal to the line. Dryden.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fatal

   F.A.T.A.L., an acronym of Fantasy Adventure to Adult Lechery (first edition) or From Another Time Another Land (second edition), is a dark fantasy tabletop role-playing game first published in 2002 by Fatal Games. F.A.T.A.L. is known for its graphic violent and sexual content, as well as the complexity of the underlying game system, involving higher-level mathematics and an unusual amount of randomization in character development. It acquired a strongly negative reputation in the tabletop roleplaying community, being universally panned and described as one of the most controversial games ever released. It is particularly known as the subject of a 2003 review published on RPGnet by Darren MacLennan and Jason Sartin, which described it as "the Necronomicon of role-playing games", in addition to "fundamentally broken in its attitude towards sexuality" and characterized by "bitter misogyny".

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fatal

   Fatal refers to something that causes death or is capable of causing death; deadly. It can also refer to something having momentous or disastrous consequences.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fataladjective

   proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable

2. Fataladjective

   foreboding death or great disaster

3. Fataladjective

   causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error

4. Etymology: [L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See Fate.]

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1. fatal

   Song lyrics by fatal -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by fatal on the Lyrics.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FATAL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fatal is ranked #96368 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Fatal surname appeared 189 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fatal.
   
   79.8% or 151 total occurrences were Black.
   15.3% or 29 total occurrences were White.
   3.1% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fatal' in Adjectives Frequency: #815

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Anagrams for fatal »

1. A-flat

2. aflat

How to pronounce fatal?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say fatal in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fatal in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fatal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of fatal in a Sentence

1. Nile Gardiner:

   I think Biden simply doesn't believe in a powerful projection of American might and power. Biden is a quintessentially European Union-style politician who believes in endless negotiations and multilateral solutions... He's not someone who believes in the protection of hard power, and that's a fatal mistake to make when you are confronting both Beijing and Moscow because it just sends a message of weakness rather than strength.

2. Franz Kafka:

   Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing never happened, it is still conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never.

3. Oliver Funnell:

   There was a chance (he could have regurgitated the tongs) but they were too far in, even dragging them out could have been fatal.

4. Ernest Dimnet:

   The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

5. Atlanta Police Department:

   CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Officer integrity goes to the heart of what we do here every single day, Chief Erika Shields said in a statement. Its imperative the public have trust in our word and our actions. Its extremely disappointing to see the victim of a fatal shooting be victimized twice by the actions of one of our officers.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fatal
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fatal
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=fatal
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fatal
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fatal