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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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sorrowful
English
Etymology
From Middle English sorweful, from Old English sorhful, sorgful (“full of care; anxious; sorrowful”), from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (“full of care; anxious”), equivalent to sorrow +? -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol (“careful; anxious”), Norwegian sorgfull (“sorrowful”), Icelandic sorgfullur (“lamentable”).
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?s??o?f?l/, /?s???f?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s??o?f?l/, /?s???f?l/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s????f?l/, /?s???f?l/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?s????f?l/, /?s???f?l/
- Hyphenation: sor?row?ful
Adjective
sorrowful (comparative more sorrowful, superlative most sorrowful)
- (of a person) exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught.
- Producing sorrow; causing grief.
- sorrowful accident
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
- She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
Synonyms
- mournful, lamentable, grievous
- See also Thesaurus:sad
- See also Thesaurus:lamentable
Translations
Further reading
- sorrowful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sorrowful in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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