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fatal /fāˈtl/ adjective- Causing death
- Mortal
- Bringing ruin
- Calamitous
- Decisive, critical, fateful
- Destined, unavoidable
- Belonging to or appointed by fate
- Announcing fate
ORIGIN: L fatalis, from fatum; see fate fātˈalism noun - The doctrine that all events are subject to fate, and happen by unavoidable necessity
- Acceptance of this doctrine
- Lack of effort in the face of threatened difficulty or disaster
fātˈalist noun A person who believes in fatalism fātalistˈic adjective fatality /fə-talˈi-ti/ noun - A fatal occurrence
- A person who has been killed, esp in an accident, etc
- The state of being fatal or unavoidable
- The decree of fate
- Fixed tendency to disaster or death
- Mortality
fātˈally adverb the fatal sisters see under fate fate /fāt/ noun- Inevitable destiny or necessity
- Appointed lot
- Destined term of life
- Ill-fortune
- Doom
- Final issue
- (in pl; with cap; Gr myth) the three goddesses of fate, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who determine the birth, life, and death of men and women, the fatal sisters
ORIGIN: L fātum a prediction, from fātus spoken, from fārī to speak fātˈed adjective - Doomed
- Destined
- Invested with the power of destiny (Shakespeare)
- Enchanted (Dryden)
fateˈful adjective - Critical, decisive, having significant consequence
- Bringing calamity or death
- Prophetic, portentous
- Controlled by, or revealing the power of fate
fateˈfully adverb fateˈfulness noun a fate worse than death - Orig an ordeal more horrible or degrading than simple death, esp rape
- (now chiefly facetious) any terrible ordeal
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