Fatal

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fatal \Fa"tal\, a. [L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See
     {Fate}.]
     1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny;
        necessary; inevitable. [R.]
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              These thing are fatal and necessary.  --Tillotson.
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              It was fatal to the king to fight for his money.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     2. Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.]
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              That fatal screech owl to our house
              That nothing sung but death to us and ours. --Shak.
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     3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive;
        calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal
        day; a fatal error.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fatal
       adj 1: bringing death [ant: {nonfatal}]
       2: having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that
          fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on
          North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election
          finally arrived" [syn: {fateful}]
       3: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
          consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on
          Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a
          disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines,
          if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles
          Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to
          win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: {black},
           {calamitous}, {disastrous}, {fateful}]
       4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal
          series of events" [syn: {fateful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  187 Moby Thesaurus words for "fatal":
     accidental, adventitious, aleatory, appointed, approaching,
     awe-inspiring, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, brutal,
     calamitous, casual, casualty, cataclysmal, cataclysmic,
     catastrophic, causeless, chance, chancy, coming, consuming,
     consumptive, contingent, damaging, deadliness, deadly, death,
     death-bringing, deathful, deathly, decreed, demolishing,
     demolitionary, depredatory, depressed, desired, desolating,
     destinal, destined, destroying, destructive, determined,
     devastating, devoted, dicey, dire, disastrous, donsie, doomed,
     doomful, dreadful, earnest, emergent, essential, eventual,
     evil-starred, extrapolated, fatality, fated, fateful, fatidic,
     feral, final, fluky, foredoomed, foreordained, formidable,
     forthcoming, fortuitous, fortuneless, fratricidal, funest, future,
     futuristic, grave, grievous, hapless, harmful, heavy, hereafter,
     hoped-for, iffy, ill off, ill-fated, ill-starred, imminent,
     imposing, in adverse circumstances, in store, in the cards,
     inauspicious, incidental, indeterminate, ineluctable, inescapable,
     inevitable, internecine, killing, later, lethal, lethality,
     luckless, malefic, maleficent, malign, malignancy, malignant,
     marked, mischievous, mortal, mortality, murderous, nearing,
     necessary, nihilist, nihilistic, noxiousness, ominous, ordained,
     out of luck, pernicious, perniciousness, pestilent, pestilential,
     planet-struck, planned, plotted, poisonous, poisonousness,
     portentous, predestined, predetermined, predicted, preordained,
     probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, ravaging, risky,
     ruining, ruinous, sad, savage, self-destructive, serious,
     short of luck, sinister, sober, solemn, star-crossed,
     subversionary, subversive, suicidal, terminal, to come, to-be,
     toxic, tragic, ultimate, unavoidable, unblessed, uncaused,
     underprivileged, undetermined, unexpected, unforeseeable,
     unforeseen, unfortunate, unhappy, unlooked-for, unlucky,
     unpredictable, unprosperous, unprovidential, vandalic, vandalish,
     vandalistic, virulence, virulent, wasteful, wasting, weighty,
     withering, wreckful, written
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  fatal
       
           Resulting in termination of the program.
       
          (1997-08-03)