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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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unhappy
English
Etymology
un- +? happy
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?hæpi/
- Rhymes: -æpi
Adjective
unhappy (comparative unhappier or more unhappy, superlative unhappiest or most unhappy)
- Not happy; sad.
- 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
- A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.
- 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
- Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
- An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.
- (chiefly dated) Not lucky; unlucky.
- The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.
- (chiefly dated) Not suitable; unsuitable.
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
- The people, if they are not strangely bent
Against our welfare, never will consent
To this unhappy match, foreboding ill:
What's it to us, if th' adverse nation will?
- The people, if they are not strangely bent
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
Synonyms
- (not happy): See Thesaurus:sad or Thesaurus:lamentable
Antonyms
- happy
- glad
- delighted
- exuberant
- joyous
- joyful
Translations
Noun
unhappy (plural unhappies)
- An individual who is not happy.
- 1972, The New Yorker (volume 48, part 1, page 109)
- Leduc, as is true of many other unhappies, is largely a confessional writer: her subject is herself, and her gift is a driving, vivacious power that turns her incurable, inveterate unhappiness into a series of dramas […]
- 1972, The New Yorker (volume 48, part 1, page 109)
Middle English
Noun
unhappy
- unhap
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