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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
fatal
1. bringing death (Freq. 6) • Ant: nonfatal • Similar to: deadly, deathly, mortal, lethal, terminal • Derivationally related forms: fatality 2. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance (Freq. 4) - "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev - the fatal day of the election finally arrived • Syn: fateful • Similar to: decisive 3. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin - the stock market crashed on Black Friday - a calamitous defeat - the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign - "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin - "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur - a fateful error • Syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fateful • Similar to: unfortunate • Derivationally related forms: disaster (for: disastrous), calamity (for: calamitous) 4. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined - a fatal series of events • Syn: fateful • Similar to: inevitable
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