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fatal
[ feyt-l ]
adjective
a fatal accident;
a fatal dose of poison.
Antonyms:
- causing destruction, misfortune, ruin, or failure:
The withdrawal of funds was fatal to the project.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- decisively important; fateful:
The fatal day finally arrived.
- proceeding from or decreed by fate; inevitable:
a fatal series of events.
- influencing or concerned with fate; fatalistic.
- Obsolete. condemned by fate; doomed.
- Obsolete. prophetic.
fatal
/ 藞蹿别瑟迟蓹濒 /
adjective
- resulting in or capable of causing death
a fatal accident
- bringing ruin; disastrous
- decisively important; fateful
- decreed by fate; destined; inevitable
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 蹿补顎僼补濒路苍别蝉蝉 noun
- 苍辞苍路蹿补顎僼补濒 adjective
- 苍辞苍路蹿补顎僼补濒路ly adverb
- non路蹿补顎僼补濒路苍别蝉蝉 noun
- 辩耻补顎却颈-蹿补顎僼补濒 adjective
- 辩耻补顎却颈-蹿补顎僼补濒路ly adverb
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of fatal1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Cats are highly susceptible to the virus, and infection with it is very serious and frequently fatal in cats.
Safety checks on a train braking system were not carried out before a fatal rail crash, a report has found.
Swedish police have arrested a teenager after a fatal triple shooting in the city of Uppsala on Tuesday.
An Australian woman accused of cooking a fatal mushroom meal admits to picking wild funghi, lying to police and disposing of evidence, but will argue the "tragedy" was a "terrible accident".
Between Good Friday and Easter Sunday 2023, he made sure Mr and Mrs Baxter consumed a fatal dose of fentanyl disguised in a "liver cleanse" smoothie.
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More About Fatal
What does听fatal mean?
Fatal literally means deadly鈥攃apable of causing death.
Similar words are deadly, lethal, and mortal鈥攖hough they are often used in different ways.
Fatal can also be used in a figurative way to mean capable of causing the destruction, ruin, or failure of someone or something, as in Failing to update their products proved to be a fatal mistake for the company.听
Example: These changes will hopefully greatly reduce the number of fatal car accidents that occur on highways.
Where does听fatal come from?
The first records of fatal in English come from the second half of the 1300s. It comes from the Latin 蹿腻迟腻濒颈蝉, meaning 鈥渙f fate.鈥 Fatal was originally used in English to refer to things affected or doomed by fate鈥攁nd it can still be used this way, though it is uncommon. It wasn鈥檛 until around the 1500s that fatal started to be used to refer to things that can cause death or ruin.
Most commonly, fatal is applied to things that can cause death, such as a fatal dose of drugs, or things that have resulted in death, such as a fatal accident. A mistake can be described as fatal if it literally causes someone to die. But the phrase fatal mistake more often refers to something that caused the destruction of something, as in The chaotic press conference ended up being fatal to the campaign.听
Fatal can mean 鈥fateful,鈥 but this is much less commonly used than its other senses. However, it is used in this way in the term fatalism, referring to a belief that everything is inevitable and determined by fate. Someone with such a view can be described as fatalistic.
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What are some other forms related to fatal?
- fatally (adverb)
- nonfatally (adverb)
- fatalness (noun)
- nonfatal (adjective)
- nonfatalness (noun)
What are some synonyms for fatal?
What are some words that share a root or word element with fatal?听
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What are some words that often get used in discussing fatal?
How is听fatal used in real life?
Fatal is most often used in a literal (and very serious) way to refer to something that caused or can cause death.
One of the men accused in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery was involved in a previous prosecution of Arbery, according to a letter written by a prosecutor who has since recused himself from the case
鈥 CNN (@CNN)
MORE: For context, this is considered a fatal dose of fentanyl 鈥 approx. 2.5 milligrams.
Fentanyl is 50-100 times more powerful than morphine, and highly addictive.
Experts says users are seeking out dealers who鈥檝e caused fatal overdoses all in order to secure a stronger high.
鈥 Kevin Lewis (@ABC7Kevin)
Remember that success isn鈥檛 final, failure isn鈥檛 fatal. It鈥檚 the courage to continue that counts 馃
鈥 Burna Boy (@burnaboy)
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Try using听fatal!
Which of the following words is NOT a synonym for fatal?
A. lethal
B. deadly
C. trivial
D. ruinous
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