 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fatal
adjective
1: bringing death [ant: {nonfatal}]
2: 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" [syn: {fateful}]
3: (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" [syn: {black},
{calamitous}, {disastrous}, {fateful}]
4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal
series of events" [syn: {fateful}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fatal \Fa"tal\, adjective [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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
187 Moby Thesaurus words for "fatal":
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
fatal
Resulting in termination of the program.
(1997-08-03)
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