Definition of 'fatal'

Adjective

1. bringing death
      Antonyms: 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"
      Synonyms: fateful
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"
      Synonyms: black calamitous disastrous fateful
4. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
      Synonyms: fateful

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