Synonyms 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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fatal

   Synonyms:
   calamitous, deadly, destructive, mortal, lethal

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

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1. fataladjective

   bringing death

   Synonyms:
   fateful, disastrous, calamitous, black

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

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"

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

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

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"

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

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

4. fatal, fatefuladjective

   controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined

   "a fatal series of events"

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

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

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1. fataladjective

   Synonyms:
   deadly, mortal, LETHAL

2. fataladjective

   Synonyms:
   calamitous, destructive, ruinous, mischievous

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1. fataladjective

   Synonyms:
   mortal, deadly

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1. List of paraphrases for "fatal":

   deadly, lethal, mortal, life-threatening, fateful, unrecoverable, disastrous, killer, murderous

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1. Franklin County Sheriffs Office SWAT:

   While investigating this fatal traffic crash it was very clear to investigators that Mr. Ellis is one of the worst habitual repeat offenders of drunk driving we have seen, he has no regard for human life.

2. Ernest Ezis:

   Drivers need to realize that when they make a mistake, it's often fatal to the cyclist.

3. President John McNesby:

   Our police officers are being vilified for doing their job and keeping the community safe, after being confronted by a man with a knife. We support and defend these officers, as they too are traumatized by being involved in a fatal shooting, we ask the public for its patience as investigators work to gather all the facts of this tragic incident in West Philadelphia. Our thoughts and prayers are with these police officers who had to use lethal force to keep themselves and the community safe.

4. William Shakespeare:

   Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain

5. Tom Clements:

   This decision is a fatal blow to the mismanaged MOX project at the (Savannah River Site) as it will set the precedent that plutonium is waste and not a commercial product to be used as nuclear fuel.