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. Bobbi Pritt:

   If they don’t have an EpiPen, eating a bug they’re allergic to can be fatal.

2. Sapna Patel:

   It’s tragic when this happens because the baby will usually develop melanoma within the first year of life, and because the disease is advanced, it’s always fatal.

3. Tony Tyler:

   To the flying public an air tragedy is an air tragedy, regardless of how it is classified, in 2014 we saw a reduction in the number of fatal accidents — and that would be true even if we were to include MH17 in the total.

4. Tony Tyler:

   To the flying public an air tragedy is an air tragedy, regardless of how it is classified, in 2014 we saw a reduction in the number of fatal accidents - and that would be true even if we were to include MH17 in the total.

5. Richard Windsor:

   And even if it did, it is quite possible that fatal damage has already been done to Huawei's smartphone business.