Definition: 1. Bringing death. 2. Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance. 3. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin. 4. Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined.
Use 'fatal' in a sentence:
1. More than 750 commercial airliners were involved in fatal accidents last year. Added to that were the 1,550 smaller aircraft.
2. Cystic fibrosis is the commonest fatal hereditary disease.
3. They were only boys, and they went white as they saw Jukes and Cecco preparing the fatal plank.
4. There was a fatal flaw in his program.
5. Around the world, there are only about one hundred shark attacks on humans each year, ten of which proved fatal.
6. He put the fatal knife in Potter's open right hand, and sat down on the dismantled coffin.
7. Any crack in that front could be fatal for tech companies that must operate worldwide.
8. That young candidate suffered a fatal blow in the election.
9. Industrial fishing and climate change could be fatal to certain Antarctic species.
10. Bathing will cool you but remember that fatal accidents can happen very easily and in the most unexpected conditions.
11. The wound may be fatal.
12. As late as the 1950s, tuberculosis was still a fatal illness.
13. Her children's death is a fatal blow on her.
14. Tom succeeded in his efforts to overcome his fatal weakness.
15. The patient has contracted a fatal illness. There is little chance of his recovery.
16. There was some fatal flaw in his makeup, and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand.
17. Researchers discover that the swine flu virus binds far deeper in the lungs than ordinary flu, possibly explaining why it is sometimes fatal.
18. His party has just suffered the equivalent of a near-fatal heart attack.
19. At the very least, the research is starting to show that early setbacks don't have to be fatal.
20. It is impossible to say who struck the fatal blow.
21. The report reveals fatal flaws in security at the airport.
22. It'd be fatal to try and stop them now.
23. Immunization coverage against fatal diseases has increased to 99% in some countries.
24. It is the fatal day to me.
25. Many gray squirrels are silent carriers of a disease fatal to red squirrels.
26. The delay proved fatal to our plans.
27. The cholera had broken out in its most fatal form and people were dying like flies.
28. The bite of a mad dog is fatal.
29. His hand closed on the fatal draught.
30. As Permian life-forms declined, they reached a fatal threshold and species succumbed to mass extinction.
31. The enemy got a fatal blow in the battle.
32. This disease can prove fatal.
33. The waste water can be fatal if swallowed. Police are investigating what caused the reservoir to break.
34. It seems to me a fatal illusion to expect one's children simply to reproduce one's own views.
35. Furthermore, many gray squirrels are silent carriers of a disease fatal to red squirrels.
36. Perhaps that illness, diagnosed as fatal, gave him a sense of living on borrowed time.
37. Two of the knife thrusts were fatal.
38. It would deal a fatal blow to his fading chances of success.
39. He made the fatal mistake of compromising early.
40. Since the beginning, this price tag has been PreCheck's fatal flaw.
41. Some people consider the hydrogen bomb a very fatal weapon which could kill somebody.
42. There was a fatal flaw in the plan.
43. If she gets ill again it could prove fatal.
44. This type of allergy can very occasionally be fatal.
45. Fatal road accidents have decreased in frequency over recent years.
46. It would be fatal to bring in outsider.
47. It would clearly be fatal for Europe to quarrel seriously with America.
48. Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disease in the United States.
49. In fact, a virus emerged in the 1970s that could've been just that fatal.
50. A hospital spokesman said she had suffered a fatal heart attack.
51. It is a fatal leap into nothingness, even though the hero may not be aware that his energy springs from a life deprived of its normal supports.
52. Even moderate amounts of the drug can be fatal.
53. This acute infection of the brain is almost invariably fatal.
