fatall

Adjective

fatal (comparative more fatal, superlative most fatal)

1. (archaic, rare) Proceeding 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.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court

   Synonyms:

   inevitable, necessary, avoidless, certain, foregone, impreventable, ineluctable, inescapable, inexorable, irresistible

2. (archaic, rare) Foreboding 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 moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which...1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   inauspicious, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, foreboding

3. Causing death or destruction.
   • a fatal wound; a fatal disease; that fatal day; a fatal mistake

   Synonyms:

   calamitous, deadly, destructive, lethal, mortal, terminal, apocalyptic, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic

4. Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.
   • a fatal error; a fatal exception

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