Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.
- 2adjective
Foreboding death or great disaster.
- 3adjective
Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.
- 4adjective
controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
"a fatal series of events"
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- 5adjective
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"
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- 6adjective
bringing death
- 7adjective
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin- Charles Darwin- Douglas MacArthur
"the stock market crashed on Black Friday"
"a calamitous defeat"
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