fatal
4 definitions found
fatal - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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.]
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These thing are fatal and necessary. --Tillotson.
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It was fatal to the king to fight for his money.
--Bacon.
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2. Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.]
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That fatal screech owl to our house
That nothing sung but death to us and ours. --Shak.
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3. 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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fatal - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
fatal
adj 1: bringing death [ant: nonfatal]
2: 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]
3: (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]
4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series
of events" [syn: fatal, fateful]
fatal - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
fatal
<programming> Resulting in termination of the program.
(1997-08-03)
fatal - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
187 Moby Thesaurus words for "fatal":
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
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