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fatally

  • /ˈfeɪtəli/
  • [ˈfeɪ̯ɾl̩i] US

adverb more fatally · most fatally

  1. In a deadly manner; lethally. Witness our too much memorable shame When Cressy battle fatally was struck, And all our princes captiv'd by the hand Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;
  2. Ultimately, with finality or irrevocability, moving towards the demise of something. "They pretend," as I hear, "that the verses of Kabir have four different senses; illusion, spirit, intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas;" but in this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man's writings admit of more than one interpretation. While England endeav
  3. Fatedly; according to the dictates of fate or doom. He was a slender young man in hot black clothes; he wore the unfaçaded collar fatally and unanimously adopted by all adam's-apple men of morals; he was washed, fair, flat-skulled, clean-minded, and industrious; and the only noise of any kind he ever made in the world was on Sunday.

Similar: mortally

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: mortally, deadly, lethally, deathly, dead, severely, hopelessly, gravely, permanently, inevitably, irretrievably, irreversibly, irredeemably, inextricably, irremediably, irrevocably

adverb

Similar: mortally

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adv ultimately, with finality or irrevocability

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@misc{fatally_2026,
  title = {fatally},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fatally},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}