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fatal
English
Etymology
From Middle French fatal, from Latin f?t?lis (“fatal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fe?t?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): [?fe?.???]
- Rhymes: -e?t?l
Adjective
fatal (not comparable)
- Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.
- Foreboding death or great disaster.
- Causing death or destruction.
- (computing) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.
Synonyms
- (proceeding from fate): inevitable, necessary
- (foreboding death): terminal
- (causing death): calamitous, deadly, destructive, mortal
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
fatal (plural fatals)
- A fatality; an event that leads to death.
- 1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education, Hearings (page 90)
- For this same period there have been four fatals and 44 nonfatals in gassy mines.
- 1999, Flying Magazine (volume 126, number 4, April 1999, page 15)
- The best accident rate in general aviation is in corporate/executive flying at 0.17 per 100000 hours for fatals and .50 for total accidents.
- 1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education, Hearings (page 90)
- (computing) A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.
Anagrams
- A flat, A-flat, a flat, a-flat, aflat
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin f?t?lis (“fatal”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /f??tal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /fa?tal/
- Homophone: fetal (Balearic, Central)
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
fatal (masculine and feminine plural fatals)
- fatal
Derived terms
- fatalisme
- fatalista
- fatalment
Related terms
- fatalitat
Further reading
- “fatal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish
Etymology
From Latin f?t?lis (“fatal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fata?l/, [fa?t?æ??l]
Adjective
fatal
- fatal
Inflection
Synonyms
- skæbnesvanger
Derived terms
- fatalisme
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin f?t?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.tal/
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
fatal (feminine singular fatale, masculine plural fatals, feminine plural fatales)
- fatal (due to fate)
- fatal (causing death)
Derived terms
- fatalement
- fatalisme
- fataliste
- femme fatale
Related terms
- fatalité
Further reading
- “fatal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin f?t?lis.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?l
Adjective
fatal (comparative fataler, superlative am fatalsten)
- fatal
Declension
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch fataal, from Middle French fatal, from Latin f?t?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fatal]
- Hyphenation: fa?tal
Adjective
fatal
- fatal,
- causing death or destruction.
- Synonym: celaka
- proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; inevitable.
- causing death or destruction.
Further reading
- “fatal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Middle French
Etymology
First known attestation 1380, borrowed from Latin f?t?lis
Adjective
fatal m (feminine singular fatale, masculine plural fatals, feminine plural fatales)
- fatal (due to fate)
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin fatalis
Adjective
fatal (neuter singular fatalt, definite singular and plural fatale)
- fatal
References
- “fatal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin fatalis
Adjective
fatal (neuter singular fatalt, definite singular and plural fatale)
- fatal
References
- “fatal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin f?t?lis (“fatal”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /f?.?ta?/
- Hyphenation: fa?tal
Adjective
fatal m or f (plural fatais, comparable)
- fatal
- terrible, very bad
Derived terms
- fatalismo
- fatalista
- fatalmente
Related terms
- fatalidade
Further reading
- “fatal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
From French fatal, from Latin fatalis.
Adjective
fatal m or n (feminine singular fatal?, masculine plural fatali, feminine and neuter plural fatale)
- fatal
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin f?t?lis (“fatal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa?tal/, [fa?t?al]
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
fatal (plural fatales)
- fatal
- terrible, very bad
Derived terms
Related terms
- fatalidad
Adverb
fatal
- very badly, terribly
Further reading
- “fatal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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noxious
English
Alternative forms
- noctious (obsolete)
Etymology
From Latin noxius (“hurtful, injurious”), from noxa (“hurt, injury”), from nocere (“to hurt, injure”); see nocent.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?k??s/
Adjective
noxious (comparative more noxious, superlative most noxious)
- Harmful; injurious.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "noxious" is often applied: substance, chemical, fume, gas, odor, plant, weed, animal, stimulus, stimulation.
Synonyms
- harmful
- injurious
- scathel
- see also Thesaurus:harmful
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- noxious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- noxious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- noxious at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “noxious”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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