Synonyms for fatality
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fey-tal-i-tee, fuh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : feɪˈtæl ɪ ti, fə- |
Top 10 synonyms for fatality
Définition of fatality
Origin :- late 15c., "quality of causing death," from French fatalité, from Late Latin fatalitatem (nominative fatalitas), from Latin fatalis (see fatal). Senses in 16c.-17c. included "determined by fate" and "a destiny." Meaning "an occurrence resulting in widespread death" is from 1840. Related: Fatalities.
- noun death, loss; ability to cause such
- What a fatality, that you have no better an option—either a Scylla or a Charybdis.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- But if Ruffo were there, if Artois came, it would be fatality.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- By what fatality was it that a man always chose the worst road?
- Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever
- It is a fatality rather than a triumph to have undergone such a change.
- Extract from : « The Industries of Animals » by Frdric Houssay
- The Rita that haunted me had no history; she was but the principle of life charged with fatality.
- Extract from : « The Arrow of Gold » by Joseph Conrad
- He attributed the fatality, in part, to a want of sufficient ventilation.
- Extract from : « Cattle and Their Diseases » by Robert Jennings
- It grieves me much, that by some fatality, his services seem ever overlooked.'
- Extract from : « Alroy » by Benjamin Disraeli
- What was once the fatality of genius is now the aspiration of fools.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 » by Various
- It minimizes the evil and fatality of war, in which every life and every wound must be paid for.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- Stocks had declined for two weeks with appalling swiftness and fatality.
- Extract from : « The Root of Evil » by Thomas Dixon
Antonyms for fatality
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