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

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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:
   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, 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:
   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. Angela Wood:

   Alcohol consumption is associated with a slightly lower risk of non-fatal heart attacks, but this must be balanced against the higher risk associated with other serious -- and potentially fatal -- cardiovascular diseases.

2. Mark Twain:

   Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

3. Danine Fruge:

   Your body has built-in mechanisms that don't allow it to overdose from food, but that doesn't exist for supplements. Too much magnesium via supplement can put your heart into an arrhythmia and that can even be fatal, particularly for people with issues like diabetes.

4. Lyon County Sheriff Al McNeil:

   This is rural Nevada, and every home has a gun. My biggest concern is one of these kids will go into a house at 2 a.m., and there will be a farmer or a rancher there, and we'll have a fatal shooting.

5. Boaz Shulruf:

   This study echoes our study in New Zealand by suggesting that behavior is the main risk factor for fatal ATV accidents.