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fatal

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fatal

1 bringing about ruin or misfortune

I made the fatal mistake of sharing my secret with the office's biggest blabbermouth

Synonyms of fatal

calamitous, cataclysmal (or cataclysmic), catastrophic, damning, destructive, disastrous, fateful, ruinous, unfortunate

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apocalyptic (also apocalyptical)

hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless

adverse, baleful, baneful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial

Near Antonyms of fatal

fluky (also flukey), fortuitous, fortunate, happy, lucky, providential

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, rosy, upbeat

2 likely to cause or capable of causing death

that snake's venom is fatal unless the victim is given the antidote almost immediately

Synonyms of fatal

baleful, deadly, deathly, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous, pestilent, terminal, vital

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baneful, deleterious, destructive, harmful, injurious, noxious, pernicious, truculent

infectious, infective, pestilential, poisonous, sublethal, toxic, virulent

dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, ugly, unhealthy, unsound

bloody, internecine, sanguinary, sanguine

Near Antonyms of fatal

beneficial, restorative, salubrious, salutary

alleviative, corrective, curative, remedial, tonic

advantageous, beneficial, useful

nonpoisonous, nontoxic, safe

Antonyms of fatal

healthful, healthy, nonfatal, nonlethal, wholesome

Synonym Discussion of fatal

deadly, mortal, fatal, lethal mean causing or capable of causing death. deadly applies to an established or very likely cause of death.

- a deadly disease

mortal implies that death has occurred or is inevitable.

- a mortal wound

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

- fatal consequences

lethal applies to something that is bound to cause death or exists for the destruction of life.

- lethal gas

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