Definition of fatal

"fatal" in the adjective sense

1. fatal

bringing death

2. fateful, fatal

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"

3. black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful

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"

4. fatal, fateful

controlled or decreed by fate predetermined

"a fatal series of events"

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Quotations for fatal

Thou who hast
The fatal gift of beauty. [ Byron ]

Our waking dreams are fatal. [ Young ]

Sirs, adulation is a fatal thing -
Rank poison for a subject, or a king. [ Dr. Wolcot ]

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. [ John Fletcher ]

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid. [ Cowper ]

Fatal ambition! say what wondrous charms
Delude mankind to toil for thee in arms? [ Rowe ]

The fatal shaft sticks deep in her side. [ Virgil ]

They did not know how hate can burn
In hearts once changed from soft to stern;
Nor all the false and fatal zeal
The convert of revenge can feel. [ Byron ]

Be wise to-day! 'tis madness to defer;
Next day, the fatal precedent will plead;
Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life.
Procrastination is the thief of time. [ Edward Young ]

Grief should be the instructor of the wise;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. [ Byron ]

For thee, O now a silent soul, my brother,
Take at my hands this garland and farewell,
Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell,
And chill the solemn earth, a fatal mother. [ Swinburne ]

Consider how the desperate fight;
Despair strikes wild, - but often fatal too -
And in the mad encounter wins success. [ Havard ]

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser. [ Flaccus ]

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
In every bosom where her nest is made.
Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. [ Cowper ]

Ruin is most fatal when it begins from the bottom. [ Goldsmith ]

It is the best use of fate to teach a fatal courage. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

In society mediocrity is not alone dangerous, it is fatal. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

To many a torrent flow of speech and their own eloquence is fatal. [ Juv ]

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. [ J. G. Holland ]

We have not only multiplied diseases, bnt we have made them more fatal. [ Rush ]

Favours, and especially pecuniary ones, are generally fatal to friendship. [ Hor. Smith ]

The gods from heaven survey the fatal strife, and mourn the miseries of human life. [ Dryden ]

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged. [ J. G. Saxe ]

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. [ Johnson ]

The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name. [ George Herbert ]

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. [ T. Parker ]

Any pleasure which takes and keeps the heart from God is sinful, and unless forsaken, will be fatal to the soul. [ Richard Fuller ]

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of conviction. The leaden bullet is more fatal than when multiplied into shot. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. [ Young ]

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best talents. It supplies the place of many talents. [ Simms ]

Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess. [ Landor ]

Slander and detraction can have no influence, can make no impression, upon the righteous Judge above. None to thy prejudice, but a sad and fatal one to their own. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. [ Gladstone ]

But the grave is not deep; it is the shining tread of an angel that seeks us. When the unknown hand throws the fatal dart at the end of man, then boweth he his head and the dart only lifts the crown of thorns from his wounds. [ Richter ]

Let us pity the wicked man; for it is very sad to seek happiness where it does not exist. Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring him gently back to sacred principle, and if he persist, let us pity him the more for a blindness so fatal to himself. [ De Charnage ]

Each successive generation plunges into the abyss of passion, without the slightest regard to the fatal effects which such conduct has produced upon their predecessors; and lament, when too late, the rashness with which they slighted the advice of experience, and stifled the voice of reason. [ Steele ]

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so. [ Ruskin ]

There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads. [ Colton ]

Talk, except as the preparation for work, is worth almost nothing; sometimes it is worth infinitely less than nothing; and becomes, little conscious of playing such a fatal part, the general summary of pretentious nothingnesses, and the chief of all the curses the posterity of Adam are liable to in this sublunary world. [ Carlyle ]

Gallantry to women (the sure road to their favor) is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute towards it. The slightest indifference with regard to them, or distrust of yourself is equally fatal. [ Hazlitt ]

A town, before it can be plundered and deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. [ Colton ]

No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men in one mould. Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can do. Our common nature is to be unfolded in unbounded diversities. It is rich enough for infinite manifestations. It is to wear innumerable forms of beauty and glory. Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. [ Channing ]

fatal in Scrabble®

The word fatal is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters fatal:

FATAL
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word fatal

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The 149 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In fatal

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fatal in Words With Friends™

The word fatal is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters fatal:

FATAL
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word fatal

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Words within the letters of fatal

2 letter words in fatal (5 words)

3 letter words in fatal (2 words)

4 letter words in fatal (2 words)

5 letter words in fatal (1 word)

fatal + 1 blank (1 word)

Words containing the sequence fatal

Words with fatal in them (4 words)

Words that end with fatal (2 words)

Word Growth involving fatal

Shorter words in fatal

at fat

fa fat

ta

Longer words containing fatal

fatalism

fatalist fatalistic fatalistical fatalistically

fatalist fatalistic nonfatalistic

fatalist fatalists

fatalities

fatality nonfatality

fatally nonfatally

nonfatal nonfatalistic

nonfatal nonfatality

nonfatal nonfatally