Fatal - Definition

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, fatal]
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, fatal, fateful]
4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series
of events" [syn: fatal, fateful]