Fatality

Quick meaning: Fatality is a noun meaning The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.].

Meaning

The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.].

More Meanings

1. Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]
2. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]
3. An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]
4. A person killed.
5. (video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.

Example Sentences

What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?

the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking.

My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.

Word Forms

• fatalities

Synonyms for fatality

Depending on context, synonyms include inevitability, banker, cert, certainty, certitude, cinch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include destiny, fate, fatal, fatalism, incident, passing.

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