fatal: Meaning and Definition of

fa•tal

Pronunciation: (fāt'l), [key]
— adj.
  1. causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly: a fatal accident; a fatal dose of poison.
  2. causing destruction, misfortune, ruin, or failure: The withdrawal of funds was fatal to the project.
  3. decisively important; fateful: The fatal day finally arrived.
  4. proceeding from or decreed by fate; inevitable: a fatal series of events.
  5. influencing or concerned with fate; fatalistic.
  6. doomed.
  7. prophetic.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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