1 causing or ending in death:
a fatal accident / blow / illness * a potentially fatal form of cancer * If she gets ill again it could prove fatal.
compareMORTAL
2 causing disaster or failure:
a fatal error / mistake * Any delay would be fatal. * There was a fatal flaw in the plan. * It'd be fatal to try and stop them now.
fatally adverb:
fatally injured / wounded * The plan was fatally flawed from the start.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fatal is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fatal a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fatal is tagged as adjective.
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