fatal

/'feitl/

Thân thiện

A single fatal mistake caused the entire bridge to collapse.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Causing or capable of causing death: Describes something that leads directly to death or is extremely dangerous to life.
   • Having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin: Describes an event, decision, or mistake that leads to disaster, failure, or destruction.
   • Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined: (Archaic or literary) Describes something as being inevitable or destined by fate.

Examples of Usage

• Causing death:
  • He suffered a fatal injury in the accident.
  • The disease proved to be fatal for many patients.
• Having disastrous consequences:
  • The general made a fatal error in his strategy.
  • A lack of funding was fatal to the project's success.
• (Archaic/Literary) Decreed by fate:
  • They believed their meeting was a fatal encounter, destined by the stars.

Advanced Usage

• "Fatal flaw": A critical weakness or defect that leads to failure or ruin.
  • The hero's arrogance was his fatal flaw.
• "Fatal attraction": An irresistible but ultimately dangerous or destructive attraction.
  • His fatal attraction to risky investments led to his financial ruin.

Variants and Related Words

• Fatally (adverb): In a manner leading to death or disaster.
  • He was fatally wounded.
• Fatality (noun): An occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease.
  • The crash resulted in multiple fatalities.
• Fatalism (noun): The belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable.
• Fatalistic (adjective): Showing a belief in fatalism; accepting of all events as inevitable.

Synonyms

• Lethal: Sufficient to cause death.
• Deadly: Causing or likely to cause death.
• Disastrous: Causing great damage or suffering.
• Catastrophic: Involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering.
• Inevitable: Certain to happen; unavoidable.

Antonyms

• Harmless: Not able or likely to cause harm.
• Beneficial: Resulting in good; favorable or advantageous.
• Nonfatal: Not causing death.

Related Phrases

• "Fatal mistake": An error with very serious, often ruinous, consequences.
  • Underestimating your opponent is often a fatal mistake.
• "Fatal blow": A decisive action or event that causes ultimate failure or defeat.
  • The scandal dealt a fatal blow to his political career.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
   • a fatal series of events
2. (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
3. 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
4. bringing death

Từ đồng nghĩa

• fateful
• black
• calamitous
• disastrous