fatal stresses the inevitability of what has in fact resulted in death or destruction.

Look up fatal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fatal is to cause death. It may also refer to:

FATAL definition: 1. A fatal illness, accident, etc. causes death: 2. very serious and having an important bad…. Learn more.

Definition of fatal adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Fatal describes conditions, circumstances, or events that have already caused death or are virtually certain to do so in the future: a fatal accident; a fatal illness.

Fatal, deadly, lethal, mortal apply to something that has caused or is capable of causing death. Fatal may refer to either the future or the past; in either case, it emphasizes inevitability and …

Dec 14, 2025 · (computing) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program. a fatal error; a fatal exception

FATAL definition: causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly. See examples of fatal used in a sentence.

A fatal accident or illness causes someone's death. ...the fatal stabbing of a police sergeant. A hospital spokesman said she had suffered a fatal heart attack.

She made a fatal mistake/error. The plan contained a fatal flaw. [=a flaw that would cause it to fail] a fatal weakness