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Antonyms for fatal
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : feyt-l |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfeɪt l |
Definition of fatal
Origin :- late 14c., "decreed by fate," from Middle French fatal (14c.) and directly from Latin fatalis "ordained by fate," from fatum (see fate (n.)); sense of "causing death" is early 15c.
- adj deadly, lethal
- adj critical, very important
- It is impossible to doubt that this passion is fatal to more than the purse.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- Janet, be it remembered, lacked but two years of the fatal age.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- Dreaming wanes into sentimentalism, and sentimentalism is fatal to action.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
- There was certainly about this man a fatal charm which concealed his vices.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The slave states are learning this truth by fatal experience.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- It was there and then this fatal epidemic first appeared in the United States.
- Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
- Cornish, who held nothing in his hands, knew that he was at a fatal disadvantage.
- Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
- Even if we had such a right, it would be a fatal mistake to exercise it.
- Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
- But I must be calm, and explain the progress of this fatal passion.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- I know these fatal truths; too well I feel my approaching doom.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
Synonyms for fatal
- baleful
- baneful
- calamitous
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- crucial
- deathly
- decisive
- destined
- destructive
- determining
- disastrous
- doomed
- fateful
- final
- foreordained
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- incurable
- inevitable
- killing
- malefic
- malignant
- mortal
- mortiferous
- noxious
- pernicious
- pestilent
- pestilential
- poisonous
- predestined
- ruinous
- terminal
- unlucky
- virulent
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