(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"(出来事について)非常に不運な結果あるいは恐ろしい結果を持っているさま致命的
例:such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory- Charles Darwin そのような主義は、真実の場合、私の理論にとって絶対に致命的であろう?チャールズ・ダーウィン
controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"運命によってコントロールされるか、命じられる致命的