fatal

Definition

Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.

Etymology

From Middle French fatal, from Latin fātālis (“fatal”).

Example Sentences

• "She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill."
• "Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off."
• "a fatal wound; a fatal disease; that fatal day; a fatal mistake"