Usually means: Causing death; extremely serious consequences.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word fatal:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. fatal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fatal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fatal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fatal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fatal: Vocabulary.com
  6. FAtal, Fatal, fatal: Wordnik
  7. fatal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fatal: Wiktionary
  9. fatal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fatal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fatal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fatal: Dictionary.com
  13. fatal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fatal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fatal (Hussein Fatal album), Fatal (album), Fatal (disambiguation), Fatal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fatal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fatal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fatal: Rhymezone
  19. fatal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fatal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fatal: Free Dictionary
  22. fatal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fatal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. fatal: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fatal: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. fatal: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fatal: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. fatal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Fatal: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. fatal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FATAL: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fatal: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fatals as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (rare, archaic) Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.
adjective:  (rare, archaic) Foreboding death or great disaster.
adjective:  Causing death or destruction.
adjective:  (computing) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.
noun:  A fatality; an event that leads to death.
noun:  (computing) A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.

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