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Synonyms for fatal
ˈfeɪt lfa·tal
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Wiktionary
fataladjective
Foreboding death or great disaster.
Synonyms:
terminalfataladjective
Causing death or destruction
Synonyms:
calamitous, deadly, mortal, destructivefataladjective
Synonyms:
necessary, inevitable
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
fatal
Synonyms:
calamitous, deadly, destructive, mortal, lethalAntonyms:
beneficial, wholesome, nutritious, vitalizing, salubrious, restorative, slight, superficial, harmless
Princeton's WordNet
fataladjective
bringing death
Synonyms:
fateful, disastrous, calamitous, blackAntonyms:
avertible, avertable, indecisive, fortunate, nonlethal, nonfatal, evitable, avoidablefateful, 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, nonfatalblack, 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, mordantAntonyms:
avoidable, nonlethal, nonfatal, evitable, avertible, indecisive, avertable, fortunatefatal, 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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
fataladjective
fataladjective
Synonyms:
calamitous, destructive, ruinous, mischievous
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "fatal":
deadly, lethal, mortal, life-threatening, fateful, unrecoverable, disastrous, killer, murderous
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#271 | black | |
#1105 | necessary | |
#1640 | dark | |
#3528 | terminal | |
#5853 | killer | |
#8192 | fatal | |
#9200 | deadly | |
#9389 | dim | |
#11810 | inevitable | |
#13351 | destructive | |
#13724 | lethal | |
#14146 | mortal | |
#14856 | grim | |
#19559 | sinister | |
#22839 | disastrous | |
#25029 | bleak | |
#25042 | bootleg | |
#29867 | shameful | |
#30927 | murderous | |
#34766 | blackened | |
#41643 | contraband | |
#42259 | fateful | |
#45257 | disgraceful | |
#45349 | smuggled | |
#82589 | unrecoverable | |
#117416 | mordant | |
#121753 | ignominious | |
#127931 | calamitous | |
#129078 | portentous | |
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How to use fatal in a sentence?
Fatal violence disproportionately affects transgender women of color because they are at the intersections of racism, sexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and they, unfortunately, are receiving the brunt of the violence in this country.
'It's amazing that once you start talking about this, other people pop up with, 'Oh, my cousin had this; my sister had that,' depression is an illness, and it's a treatable illness, and in some cases, it can metastasize and be fatal for some people, and I think it's important to know that, but it's rare.
Clearly, there is need for caution, because diabetic people are prone to hypoglycemic episodes, and hypoglycemia can be fatal, people do not want to put them themselves at risk by fasting without consulting a doctor.
[W]e made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers.
Based on what we see in this video, it does not look like the officers who fired the fatal shots were in immediate danger of being killed and that there were other alternatives that could have been taken.
Translations for fatal
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- مميتArabic
- съдбоносен, смъртоносен, фаталенBulgarian
- fatalCatalan, Valencian
- osudový, osudnýCzech
- fatalDanish
- verhängnisvoll, tödlich, fatalGerman
- fatalaEsperanto
- fatalSpanish
- tuhoisa, tappava, fataali, kohtalokasFinnish
- fatalFrench
- fatalaIdo
- fataleItalian
- 致死, 命取り, 宿命的Japanese
- mortifer, fatalisLatin
- nāvējošs, nāvīgsLatvian
- fatale, fataalDutch
- skjebnebestemt, skjebnesvanger, fatalNorwegian
- fatalPortuguese
- фатальный, смертельный, роковойRussian
- usoden, usodno, usodna, smrtonosenSlovene
- fatalAlbanian
- fatal, ödesbestämd, dödsbringande, dödligSwedish
- gây tử vongVietnamese
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