Meaning & Definition of Fatal in English

1. Bringing death

2. 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. (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. Controlled or decreed by fate

• Predetermined

• "A fatal series of events"