| Pronunciation: | | 'feytl
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| Matching Terms: | | fata morgana, fatal accident, fatal error, fatal exception, fatalism, fatalist, fatalistic, fatality, fatality rate, fatally, fatalness
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- [adj] controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] bringing death
- [adj] (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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| | Synonyms: | | black, calamitous, deadly, deathly, decisive, disastrous, fateful, inevitable, lethal, mortal, terminal, unfortunate |
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| | Antonyms: | | nonfatal |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fa"tal\, a. [L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See
{Fate}.]
1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny;
necessary; inevitable. [R.]
These thing are fatal and necessary. --Tillotson.
It was fatal to the king to fight for his money.
--Bacon.
2. Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.]
That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing
sung but death to us and ours. --Shak.
3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive;
calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal
day; a fatal error.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Resulting in termination of the program. |
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| | See Also: | | programming |
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| | Related Terms: | | accidental, adventitious, aleatory, appointed, approaching, awe-inspiring, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, brutal, calamitous, casual, casualty, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, causeless, chance, chancy, coming, consuming, consumptive, contingent, damaging, deadliness, deadly, death, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, decreed, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, depressed, desired, desolating, destinal, destined, destroying, destructive, determined, devastating, devoted, dicey, dire, disastrous, donsie, doomed, doomful, dreadful, earnest, emergent, essential, eventual, evil-starred, extrapolated, fatality, fated, fateful, fatidic, feral, final, fluky, foredoomed, foreordained, formidable, forthcoming, fortuitous, fortuneless, fratricidal, funest, future, futuristic, grave, grievous, hapless, harmful, heavy, hereafter, hoped-for, iffy, ill off, ill-fated, ill-starred, imminent, imposing, in adverse circumstances, in store, in the cards, inauspicious, incidental, indeterminate, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, internecine, killing, later, lethal, lethality, luckless, malefic, maleficent, malign, malignancy, malignant, marked, mischievous, mortal, mortality, murderous, nearing, necessary, nihilist, nihilistic, noxiousness, ominous, ordained, out of luck, pernicious, perniciousness, pestilent, pestilential, planet-struck, planned, plotted, poisonous, poisonousness, portentous, predestined, predetermined, predicted, preordained, probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, ravaging, risky, ruining, ruinous, sad, savage, self-destructive, serious, short of luck, sinister, sober, solemn, star-crossed, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, terminal, to come, to-be, toxic, tragic, ultimate, unavoidable, unblessed, uncaused, underprivileged, undetermined, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unfortunate, unhappy, unlooked-for, unlucky, unpredictable, unprosperous, unprovidential, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, virulence, virulent, wasteful, wasting, weighty, withering, wreckful, written |
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