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. The Foreign Ministry:

   The conclusion unfortunately was different because of the tragic and fatal error of our American allies recognized by President Obama, we're shattered by today's news.

2. Mike Ditka:

   Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

3. Richard Blumenthal:

   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.

4. Cedric Alexander:

   Video footage captured from police body cameras shows Atlanta police officers talking with Rayshard Brooks moments before Rayshard Brooks was shot in a Wendys parking lot. Officer Devin Bronsan arrived inthe area after a 911 complaintof someone sleeping in a car. Rayshard Brooks said Rayshard Brooks drank a small amount of alcohol and was administered afield sobriety test. Hisblood-alcohol levelregistered at.108, above the.08 legal limit. I think youve had too much to drink to be driving, said Officer Garrett Rolfe, who responded to the scene after Officer Devin Bronsan, beforehe tried to arrest Rayshard Brooks. A struggle ensuedand the officers bodycams wereknocked to the ground. They could be heard yelling, Youre going to get Tased ! Stop fighting ! ATLANTA ERUPTS AFTER Rayshard Brooks DEATH PROMPTS POLICE CHIEF TO STEP DOWN This screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks speaking with Officer Garrett Rolfe in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, late Friday, June 12, 2020, in Atlanta. Garrett Rolfe has been fired following the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks and a second officer has been placed on administrative duty. ( Atlanta Police Department via AP) At one point Rayshard Brooks appears to grab Bronsans Taser. Hands off Bronsans Taser ! an officer said. Rayshard Brooks fled from the officers and turnedaround with the stun gun before Rayshard Brooks was shot. It does appear in the video that Rayshard Brooks is fleeing from the Atlanta police officers, that as hes fleeing Rayshard Brooks turns back over Rayshard Brooks shoulder with what appears to the naked eye to be Rayshard Brooks Taser that the eyewitnesses told us they saw the individual have that belonged to one of the officers, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said Saturday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. An autopsy found that Rayshard Brooks suffered to two gunshot wounds to Rayshard Brooks back. The Fulton County Medical Examiner ruled Rayshard Brooks deatha homicide. Garrett Rolfe has not been charged in Rayshard Brooks death but was fired from the force Sunday. Cedric Alexander, the former public safety director of Dekalb County, Ga., who now works as a police consultant, told the Associated Press that the shooting will lead to questions over how officers could have defused the situation. Heres a man who took Dekalb County upon Cedric Alexander to pull off the road to take a nap.

5. Professor Edsger Dijkstra:

   PL1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.