Definitions for fatal

fatal fa·tal

Spelling: [feyt-l]
IPA: /ˈfeɪt l/

Fatal is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in fatal (aaflt).

Definitions for fatal

adjective

  1. causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly:
  2. causing destruction, misfortune, ruin, or failure:
  3. decisively important; fateful:
  4. proceeding from or decreed by fate; inevitable:
  5. influencing or concerned with fate; fatalistic.
  6. Obsolete. doomed.
  7. Obsolete. prophetic.

Origin of fatal

1350-1400; Middle English (Old French) Latin fātālis of fate. See fate, -al1

Examples for fatal

It is impossible to doubt that this passion is fatal to more than the purse.

Nor should we ever assume that weather alone, however extreme, should be fatal to a commercial flight.

They are mean, unhappy and inspired only by their fatal selfishness.

According to a police source, that fax came in at 2:46 p.m.—literally a after before the fatal bullets flew.

Dreaming wanes into sentimentalism, and sentimentalism is fatal to action.

There was certainly about this man a fatal charm which concealed his vices.

The slave states are learning this truth by fatal experience.

Janet, be it remembered, lacked but two years of the fatal age.

As I described in an article over the summer when the fatal case in China was diagnosed, plague has three distinct clinical forms.

Two years ago, a Party apparatchik surveyed the site of a fatal traffic accident… with a smile on his face.

Word Value for fatal
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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