fatal

fatal is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.
2. adjective. Foreboding death or great disaster.
3. adjective. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.
4. adjective. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined

   "a fatal series of events"

   Synonyms: fateful

5. adjective. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance- Saturday Rev

   "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"

   "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"

   Synonyms: fateful

6. adjective. bringing death
7. adjective. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin- Charles Darwin- Douglas MacArthur

   "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"

   "a calamitous defeat"

   Synonyms: black, calamitous, disastrous, fateful

Synonyms

fateful, black, calamitous, disastrous

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in fatal:

aflat

Common word forms

fatals, fatales, fatally, fatality, fatalize, fatalness

Words from these letters

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