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fatal (adjective) (not comparable)
1. Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined: Certain diseases can be fatal or deadly.
2. Descriptive of something that causes or capable of causing death: Karla's brother died in a fatal car accident.
3. Referring to something that causes destruction, disaster, or ruin: The burglar made a fatal mistake in his undertaking and got caught.
4.Concerning an important or decisive stage or step in a process or series of events: While working on his last term paper, Jim made the fatal mistake of clicking on "delete" and not being able to retrieve it again.
5. Etymology: from Latin fata, fatum, "thing spoken (by the gods), one's destiny"; from fari, "to speak".
2. Descriptive of something that causes or capable of causing death: Karla's brother died in a fatal car accident.
3. Referring to something that causes destruction, disaster, or ruin: The burglar made a fatal mistake in his undertaking and got caught.
4.Concerning an important or decisive stage or step in a process or series of events: While working on his last term paper, Jim made the fatal mistake of clicking on "delete" and not being able to retrieve it again.
5. Etymology: from Latin fata, fatum, "thing spoken (by the gods), one's destiny"; from fari, "to speak".
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-al; -ial, -eal
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fa-, fam-, fan-, fant-, fat-, -fess; fab-, fabul-
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fatal, fateful
fatal (FAYT'l) (adjective)
1. Regarding a situation that brings about death: Certain diseases can be fatal or deadly.
2. Concerning something that causes ruin or failure: The burglar made a fatal mistake in his undertaking and got caught.
2. Concerning something that causes ruin or failure: The burglar made a fatal mistake in his undertaking and got caught.
fateful (FAYT fuhl) (adjective)
Pertaining to crucial, momentous, and important results: Clarice's life changed on that destined and fateful October evening.
Linwood remembered that fateful day when the fatal explosion at the mine marked the end of the mining industry in his area.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group F; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“fatal”
(Latin: death, deadly; fatal, lifeless; kill, killing; die, dying; mortal, mortality; destructive)