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. Henry David Thoreau:

   There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle

2. Shay Celedon:

   None of it really seems real right now. We were sitting here yesterday evening having drinks with my best friend's fiancé, i go home, go to bed, get woken up two hours later that he's deceased, and she held him till he took his last breath, and tried to bring him back and keep pressure on his gunshot wound. And it was just one fatal shot that took him from us.

3. Bertrand Russell:

   Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

4. Kyle Negrin:

   Whether it be a fatal car accident, a shooting, a lot of negative things that police deal with, this was something nice and a good feeling to deal with.

5. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus:

   In about 14 % of cases, the virus causes severe diseases including pneumonia and shortness of breath. And about 5 % of patients have critical diseases including respiratory failure, septic shock and multiorgan failure, in 2 % of reported cases, the virus is fatal, and the risk of death increases the older you are. We see relatively few cases among children. More research is needed to understand why.