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Definitions for Fatal

[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.
[8] resulting in or capable of causing death a fatal accident
[9] bringing ruin; disastrous
[10] decisively important; fateful
[11] decreed by fate; destined; inevitable

Words related to Fatal

catastrophic, calamitous, mortal, cataclysmic, disastrous, fateful, malignant, virulent, poisonous, ruinous, destructive, incurable, inevitable, crucial, decisive, baleful, baneful, deathly, final, ill-fated

Words nearby Fatal

fat-soluble vitamin, fat-tailed sheep, fat-witted, fata morgana, fatah, fatal, fatalism, fatality, fatality rate, fatally, fatback

Origin of Fatal

1350–1400; Middle English (< Old French ) < Latin fātālis of fate. See fate, -al1

Words that may be confused with Fatal

fatal, fateful, fetal, (see, synonym, study, at, the, current, entry)

Other words from Fatal

fa·tal·ness , noun
non·fa·tal , adjective
non·fa·tal·ly , adverb
non·fa·tal·ness , noun
qua·si-fa·tal , adjective
qua·si-fa·tal·ly , adverb

Word origin for Fatal

C14: from Old French fatal or Latin fātālis , from fātum , see fate

Synonyms for Fatal

calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, destructive, disastrous, fateful, incurable, inevitable, malignant, mortal, poisonous, ruinous, virulent, baleful, baneful, deathly, final, ill-fated, ill-starred, killing, malefic, mortiferous, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, terminal