Definitions for fatality

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fatality fa·tal·i·ty

Spelling: [fey-tal-i-tee, fuh-]

IPA: /feɪˈtæl ɪ ti, fə-/

Fatality is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in fatality (aafiltty).

Definitions for fatality

noun

1. a disaster resulting in death.
2. a death resulting from such an occurrence:
3. the quality of causing death or disaster; a fatal influence; deadliness.
4. predetermined liability to disaster, misfortune, etc.:
5. the quality of being predetermined by or subject to fate:
6. the fate or destiny of a person or thing:
7. a fixed, unalterably predetermined course of things; inevitability:

Origin of fatality

From the Late Latin word fātālitās, dating back to 1480-90. See fatal, -ity

Examples for fatality

The chances of you being on a flight with at least one fatality are 10 times greater in the loser bucket.

It is a fatality rather than a triumph to have undergone such a change.

But if Ruffo were there, if Artois came, it would be fatality.

He attributed the fatality, in part, to a want of sufficient ventilation.

It grieves me much, that by some fatality, his services seem ever overlooked.'

The Rita that haunted me had no history; she was but the principle of life charged with fatality.

Keep in mind, what they've been exposed to is 0.1 rem, and about 50 percent fatality is on the order of 400 rem.

A 26-year-old man was the first fatality of the riots, found shot in his car.

By what fatality was it that a man always chose the worst road?

What a fatality, that you have no better an option—either a Scylla or a Charybdis.