/ˈfeɪ.təl/, [ˈfeɪ.ɾɫ̩]
OriginFrom Middle French fatal, from Latin fātālis (“fatal”).
- archaic, rareProceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.
“She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill”
- archaic, rareForeboding death or great disaster.
“Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical”
- Causing death or destruction.
“a fatal wound; a fatal disease; that fatal day; a fatal mistake”
“Author Rita Mae Brown consistently strings together short comical movie clips which may be fine for screenplays but fatal in novels. Unfortunately, Toder chooses to imitate this model and her story su”
“I shoot Mrs. Marlow expertly through the neck. This is not a fatal wound. The bullet misses every artery. She is paralyzed before it leaves her body. Which doesn’t mean she can’t feel pain. It just me”
- Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.
“a fatal error; a fatal exception”
- A fatality; an event that leads to death.
“For this same period there have been four fatals and 44 nonfatals in gassy mines.”
“The best accident rate in general aviation is in corporate/executive flying at 0.17 per 100000 hours for fatals and .50 for total accidents.”
- A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.
Formsmore fatal(comparative) · most fatal(superlative) · fatals(plural)