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発音

• IPA: /ˈfeɪ.təl/
  • (General American) IPA: [ˈfeɪ.ɾɫ̩]
• 韻: -eɪtəl

形容詞

fatal (comparative more fatal, superlative most fatal)

1. (rare, archaic) Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.

   Synonyms: inevitable, necessary; see also Thesaurus:inevitable

   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:

     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.

2. (rare, archaic) Foreboding death or great disaster.

   Synonyms: inauspicious, portentous; see also Thesaurus:ominous

   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     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.

3. Causing death or destruction.

   Synonyms: calamitous, deadly, destructive, lethal, mortal, terminal; see also Thesaurus:disastrous

   a fatal wound; a fatal disease; that fatal day; a fatal mistake

   • 1980 December 6, Cindy Rizzo, “Jewish, Lesbian, Feminist, Psychologist, Author--All of the above and more”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 9:

     Author Rita Mae Brown consistently strings together short comical movie clips which may be fine for screenplays but fatal in novels. Unfortunately, Toder chooses to imitate this model and her story suffers.

   • 2013 April 4, Hannibal, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Will Graham (Hugh Dancy):

     I shoot Mrs. Marlow expertly through the neck. This is not a fatal wound. The bullet misses every artery. She is paralyzed before it leaves her body. Which doesn’t mean she can’t feel pain. It just means she can’t do anything about it. This is my design.

   • 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:

     Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

   • 2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 11 June 2025:

     For this reason, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that spinach be cooked at 160º for 15 seconds, which kills potentially fatal bacteria.

4. (computing) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.

   a fatal error; a fatal exception

派生語

名詞

fatal (plural fatals)

1. 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 April, Flying Magazine, volume 126, number 4, 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.

2. (computing) A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.

アナグラム

• A-flat, Falta, aflat, A flat, a-flat, a flat