fatal








adjective

  1. causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly: a fatal accident; a fatal dose of poison.
  2. causing destruction, misfortune, ruin, or failure: The withdrawal of funds was fatal to the project.
  3. decisively important; fateful: The fatal day finally arrived.
  4. proceeding from or decreed by fate; inevitable: a fatal series of events.
  5. influencing or concerned with fate; fatalistic.
  6. Obsolete. doomed.
  7. Obsolete. prophetic.

adjective

  1. resulting in or capable of causing deatha fatal accident
  2. bringing ruin; disastrous
  3. decisively important; fateful
  4. decreed by fate; destined; inevitable
adj.

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.

  1. Causing or capable of causing death.
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