Synonyms for fatality


Grammar : Noun
Spell : fey-tal-i-tee, fuh-
Phonetic Transcription : feɪˈtæl ɪ ti, fə-

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Définition of fatality

Origin :
  • late 15c., "quality of causing death," from French fatalité, from Late Latin fatalitatem (nominative fatalitas), from Latin fatalis (see fatal). Senses in 16c.-17c. included "determined by fate" and "a destiny." Meaning "an occurrence resulting in widespread death" is from 1840. Related: Fatalities.
  • noun death, loss; ability to cause such
Example sentences :
  • What a fatality, that you have no better an option—either a Scylla or a Charybdis.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • But if Ruffo were there, if Artois came, it would be fatality.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • By what fatality was it that a man always chose the worst road?
  • Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever
  • It is a fatality rather than a triumph to have undergone such a change.
  • Extract from : « The Industries of Animals » by Frdric Houssay
  • The Rita that haunted me had no history; she was but the principle of life charged with fatality.
  • Extract from : « The Arrow of Gold » by Joseph Conrad
  • He attributed the fatality, in part, to a want of sufficient ventilation.
  • Extract from : « Cattle and Their Diseases » by Robert Jennings
  • It grieves me much, that by some fatality, his services seem ever overlooked.'
  • Extract from : « Alroy » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • What was once the fatality of genius is now the aspiration of fools.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 » by Various
  • It minimizes the evil and fatality of war, in which every life and every wound must be paid for.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • Stocks had declined for two weeks with appalling swiftness and fatality.
  • Extract from : « The Root of Evil » by Thomas Dixon

Antonyms for fatality

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