Antonyms for fatal
ˈfeɪt lfa·tal

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1. fataladjective

   Foreboding death or great disaster.

   Synonyms:
   terminal

2. fataladjective

   Causing death or destruction

   Synonyms:
   calamitous, deadly, mortal, destructive

3. fataladjective

   Synonyms:
   necessary, inevitable

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1. fatal

   Antonyms:
   beneficial, wholesome, nutritious, vitalizing, salubrious, restorative, slight, superficial, harmless

   Synonyms:
   calamitous, deadly, destructive, mortal, lethal

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1. fataladjective

   bringing death

   Antonyms:
   avertible, avertable, indecisive, fortunate, nonlethal, nonfatal, evitable, avoidable

   Synonyms:
   fateful, disastrous, calamitous, black

2. fateful, fataladjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   avertible, avoidable, fortunate, avertable, indecisive, nonlethal, evitable, nonfatal

   Synonyms:
   fateful, disastrous, portentous, calamitous, black, foreboding(a)

3. black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fatefuladjective

   (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"

   Antonyms:
   avoidable, nonlethal, nonfatal, evitable, avertible, indecisive, avertable, fortunate

   Synonyms:
   pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, inglorious, portentous, grim, calamitous, blackened, fateful, black, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, foreboding(a), smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

4. fatal, fatefuladjective

   controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined

   "a fatal series of events"

   Antonyms:
   nonfatal, avertible, nonlethal, indecisive, fortunate, evitable, avoidable, avertable

   Synonyms:
   fateful, disastrous, portentous, calamitous, black, foreboding(a)

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1. fataladjective

   Synonyms:
   mortal, deadly

How to use fatal in a sentence?

1. Hugh Young:

   I think it's fundamentally not a bad bank. Yes, it made some mistakes that banks make, but not fatal mistakes - relatively straight forward.

2. William Cowper:

   Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

3. Nile Gardiner:

   I think Biden simply doesn't believe in a powerful projection of American might and power. Biden is a quintessentially European Union-style politician who believes in endless negotiations and multilateral solutions... He's not someone who believes in the protection of hard power, and that's a fatal mistake to make when you are confronting both Beijing and Moscow because it just sends a message of weakness rather than strength.

4. Dan Herbert:

   We hope that the decision will strike a fatal blow to the political exploitation of the death of Laquan McDonald.

5. Alireza Salehi Nejad:

   Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

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