adjective
- causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly: a fatal accident; a fatal dose of poison.
- causing destruction, misfortune, ruin, or failure: The withdrawal of funds was fatal to the project.
- decisively important; fateful: The fatal day finally arrived.
- proceeding from or decreed by fate; inevitable: a fatal series of events.
- influencing or concerned with fate; fatalistic.
- Obsolete. doomed.
- Obsolete. prophetic.
adjective
- resulting in or capable of causing deatha fatal accident
- bringing ruin; disastrous
- decisively important; fateful
- decreed by fate; destined; inevitable
late 14c., “decreed by fate,” from Middle French fatal (14c.) and directly from Latin fatalis “ordained by fate,” from fatum (see fate (n.)); sense of “causing death” is early 15c.
adj.
- Causing or capable of causing death.