fatality

Meaning

1. The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
2. Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
4. Death.
5. An accident that causes death.
6. A person killed.
7. A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.

Synonyms

death

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fate

accident

misfortune

human death

doom

dying

end

🔚

expiration

lethality

malice

malignancy

mishap

undoing

virulence

bereavement

mortality

a disastrous event

calamity

case of death

decease

destiny

Translations

fatalidad

fatalité

mort

Todesfall

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muerte

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décès

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Verhängnis

Todesopfer

overlijden

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desgracia

Pronounced as (IPA)

/feɪˈtælɪti/

Etymology

From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity.

Sentences

His was also the first powered aviation fatality in the United Kingdom .