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Synonyms for fatal
ˈfeɪt lfa·tal
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Wiktionary
fataladjective
Foreboding death or great disaster.
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terminalfataladjective
Causing death or destruction
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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
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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"
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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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Words popularity by usage frequency
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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 | |
#140999 | smutty | |
#157749 | inglorious | |
#285694 | opprobrious |
How to use fatal in a sentence?
These fatal shootings are not isolated incidents. They are symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year, and the resulting lack of trust that exists between law enforcement and too many of the communities they serve.
Words have consequences like saying we have an invasion on our border and talking about people as though they were different in some fatal way, i think that the public discourse from the president on down is a factor in some of these actions.
This legislation is part of our work to bring down the number of fatal overdoses and tackle the challenges driven by fentanyl head on, we will continue to work with our non-profits partners who are trying to open overdose prevention sites, fully implement our health strategies to help those struggling with addiction in our streets, and work with law enforcement to close the open-air drug markets.
Thus when Officer Mendoza fired the third and fatal shot, he knew the 12-year-old, 5-foot tall, 111-pound Thomas Siderio no longer had a gun and no ability to harm him.
More importantly, I am concerned that if a product did actually contain what is suggested, saliva from a rabid dog, that would put the patient at risk of contracting rabies, a serious, fatal illness.
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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