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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. bringing death;

2. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance;
- Example: "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev
- Example: "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
[syn: fateful, fatal]

3. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin;
- Example: "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"
- Example: "a calamitous defeat"
- Example: "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"
- Example: "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin
- Example: "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur
- Example: "a fateful error"
[syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]

4. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined;
- Example: "a fatal series of events"
[syn: fatal, fateful]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fatal \Fa"tal\, a. [L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See Fate.] 1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. [R.] [1913 Webster] These thing are fatal and necessary. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster] It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.] [1913 Webster] That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fatal adj 1: bringing death [ant: 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" [syn: fateful, fatal] 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" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful] 4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events" [syn: fatal, fateful]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

187 Moby Thesaurus words for "fatal": accidental, adventitious, aleatory, appointed, approaching, awe-inspiring, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, brutal, calamitous, casual, casualty, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, causeless, chance, chancy, coming, consuming, consumptive, contingent, damaging, deadliness, deadly, death, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, decreed, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, depressed, desired, desolating, destinal, destined, destroying, destructive, determined, devastating, devoted, dicey, dire, disastrous, donsie, doomed, doomful, dreadful, earnest, emergent, essential, eventual, evil-starred, extrapolated, fatality, fated, fateful, fatidic, feral, final, fluky, foredoomed, foreordained, formidable, forthcoming, fortuitous, fortuneless, fratricidal, funest, future, futuristic, grave, grievous, hapless, harmful, heavy, hereafter, hoped-for, iffy, ill off, ill-fated, ill-starred, imminent, imposing, in adverse circumstances, in store, in the cards, inauspicious, incidental, indeterminate, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, internecine, killing, later, lethal, lethality, luckless, malefic, maleficent, malign, malignancy, malignant, marked, mischievous, mortal, mortality, murderous, nearing, necessary, nihilist, nihilistic, noxiousness, ominous, ordained, out of luck, pernicious, perniciousness, pestilent, pestilential, planet-struck, planned, plotted, poisonous, poisonousness, portentous, predestined, predetermined, predicted, preordained, probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, ravaging, risky, ruining, ruinous, sad, savage, self-destructive, serious, short of luck, sinister, sober, solemn, star-crossed, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, terminal, to come, to-be, toxic, tragic, ultimate, unavoidable, unblessed, uncaused, underprivileged, undetermined, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unfortunate, unhappy, unlooked-for, unlucky, unpredictable, unprosperous, unprovidential, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, virulence, virulent, wasteful, wasting, weighty, withering, wreckful, written
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

fatal Resulting in termination of the program. (1997-08-03)