Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fatal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
These thing are fatal and necessary. --Tillotson.
It was fatal to the king to fight for his money.
--Bacon.
2. Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.]
That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing
sung but death to us and ours. --Shak.
3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive;
calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal
day; a fatal error.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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