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fatal adjective. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin fatalis, from fatum FATE noun: see -AL1.]
Allotted or decreed by fate. (Foll. by to.) LME-E18.
R. Bentley It is fatal to our author ever to blunder when he talks of Egypt.
b. Condemned by fate; doomed to. E16-M17.
Of or concerned with destiny. Formerly also, prophetic, ominous. LME.
the Fatal Sisters the Fates. the fatal thread: supposedly spun by the Fates, determining the length of a person's life.
Fateful, decisive, important. LME.
M. Gee That fatal night when all her dreams came to a premature and bloody end.
Destructive; ruinous; resulting in death (to); (of a weapon, bait, etc.) deadly, sure to kill. E16.
V. Woolf There is some flaw in mesome fatal hesitancy. J. A. Michener If the venom entered the bison anywhere near the head or face, it was invariably fatal.
b. Causing serious harm, disastrous. L17.
T. Hardy It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful. G. Vidal The hairdresser had made the fatal error of using the wrong dyes.
Of the nature of fate; inevitable, necessary. E17.
N. Hawthorne What a hardy plant was Shakespeare's genius, how fatal its development.
fatally adverb (a) as predetermined by fate; (b) with fatal result: LME.
fatalness noun M17.