fatality
/fəˈtælətɪ//feɪˈtælɪti/
fatality noun: the state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
Noun
fatality (plural fatalities)
- The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
- Synonyms:
- inevitability, banker, cert, certainty, certitude, cinch, dead cert, racing certainty, sure thing, fair bet
- Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
- Synonyms:
- mortality
- That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
- What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?1851, Wilkie Collins, The Twin Sisters
- Death.
- Synonyms:
- demise, the big sleep, death, end, tomb, celestial transfer, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization
- An accident that causes death.
- the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking...2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 13
- A person killed.
- A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
- My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN
fatality meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
fatality in Tamil
- இயற்சாவு நேர்வு, இறப்பு, நேர்வு இறப்பு, உயிரிழப்பு
fatality in Urdu
- fatality, death
- قضا qazā
fatality in Malayalam
- അപകടമരണം, ഗ്രഹപ്പിഴ, മരണധർമ്മം, മാരകസംഭവം
Examples of fatality in a sentence
- The 18–24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.
- Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades.
- Fatalities have resulted from deep-seated bacterial infections behind the danger triangle, caused by skin damage.
Synonyms of fatality
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Forms of fatality
| plural | fatalities |
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Origin of fatality
From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity. The video game move sense was popularized by the Mortal Kombat series.
Words formed from fatality
Phrases with fatality
Words that rhyme with fatality
- modality
- plurality
- locality
- personality
- reality
- morality
- bestiality
- potentiality
- sexuality
- duality
- formality
- instrumentality
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- irrationality
- tonality
- asexuality
- banality
- brutality
- centrality
- externality
- generality
- hospitality
- normality
- totality
- causality
- confidentiality
- conventionality
- cordiality
- dimensionality
- eventuality
- extraterritoriality
- fantasticality
- homosexuality
- immorality
- legality
- lethality
- mentality
- notionality
- sensuality
- surreality
- temporality
- androsexuality
- chirality
- congeniality
- dentality
- diapersexuality
- finality
- fursonality
- geniality
- grammaticality
- graysexuality
- gynesexuality
- gynosexuality
- institutionality
- joviality
- magnality
- mysticality
- omnipotentiality
- speciality
- sphericality
- topicality
Questions about fatality
- What does fatality mean?
- Fatality means the state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
- What is fatality in Tamil?
- Fatality in Tamil is இயற்சாவு நேர்வு, இறப்பு, நேர்வு இறப்பு. See Fatality meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fatality?
- Fatality is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fatality?
- Fatality is pronounced /feɪˈtælɪti/ (US).
- What is the plural of fatality?
- The plural of fatality is fatalities.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fatality (page history and authors); fatality (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); قضا (Urdu) (page history and authors); fatality (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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