femme fatale
/fɛm fəˈtɑːl//fɛm fəˈtæl/
femme fatale noun: an attractive and seductive but ultimately dangerous woman.
Noun
femme fatale (plural femmes fatales or femme fatales)
- An attractive and seductive but ultimately dangerous woman.
- Cause everybody knows (She's a femme fatale) / The things she does to please (She's a femme fatale)1967, Lou Reed, “Femme Fatale”, in The Velvet Underground & Nico, performed by The Velvet Underground
- Aren't you ever gonna stop deluding yourself, hmm? Handling Max? Behaving like some ludicrous little underage femme fatale? You're… you're about as fatale as an after dinner mint!1972, Jay Presson Allen, Cabaret, spoken by Brian Roberts (Michael York)
femme fatale meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Arabic and Indonesian
femme fatale in Urdu
- چنڈال, چھنال
femme fatale in Malayalam
- temptress, seductress, siren
- അപകടകരമാംവണ്ണം മാദകത്വമുള്ള സ്ത്രീ, പുരുഷനെ മദിപ്പിക്കുന്ന അഴകുള്ളവൾ, ലെെംഗികാകർഷണമുള്ള സ്ത്രീ, മാദകത്വം കൊണ്ടു വശീകരിക്കുന്ന സ്ത്രീ, ശൃംഗാരി, വഴിപിഴപ്പിക്കുന്നവൾ
femme fatale in Arabic
- seductive and dangerous woman
- طَاغِيَة جَمَال
femme fatale in Indonesian
- seductive and dangerous woman
- femme fatale
Synonyms of femme fatale
Antonyms
Forms of femme fatale
| plural | femmes fatales |
|---|---|
| plural | femme fatales |
Origin of femme fatale
Unadapted borrowing from French femme fatale (literally “deadly woman”).
Words formed from femme fatale
Questions about femme fatale
- What does femme fatale mean?
- Femme fatale means an attractive and seductive but ultimately dangerous woman.
- What is femme fatale in Urdu?
- Femme fatale in Urdu is چنڈال, چھنال. See Femme fatale meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is femme fatale?
- Femme fatale is a noun.
- How do you pronounce femme fatale?
- Femme fatale is pronounced /fɛm fəˈtæl/ (US).
- What is the plural of femme fatale?
- The plural of femme fatale is femmes fatales.
Words near femme fatale in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: femme fatale (page history and authors); femme fatale (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); femme fatale (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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