[
US
/ˈfeɪtəɫi/
]
[ UK /fˈeɪtəli/ ]
[ UK /fˈeɪtəli/ ]
ADVERB
-
with fatal consequences or implications
he was fatally ill equipped for the climb
How To Use fatally In A Sentence
- In the closet scene, Hamlet mistook her father for the king, and he fatally stabbed him.
- A string of Labour figures of all ranks are calling for the Premier to quit to save the party from being fatally damaged. The Sun
- Hundreds of angry Malawians hounded a senior political figure from his house and stoned him [though not fatally] late Wednesday, accusing him of harboring vampires.
- This latest round of cultural subversion fatally compromised Wall Street's ability to hold its own against New Deal reformers.
- Then comes an entirely new set of challenges: face-offs with writer friends whose essays he failed to select for the literary pastiche and fears the anthology will get skewered fatally by critics.
- Is he afraid we will expose the huge holes in these fatally flawed proposals?
- While such a sophisticated politician was well aware of the pitfalls involved in fiercely defending his policies and sticking unswervingly to his principles, with hindsight this decision can be seen as fatally flawed.
- The regime was fatally weakened by the unrest and violence.
- As a result his friend Shean Kearney, 23, who was sitting in the front passenger seat was fatally injured.
- Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's inspired idea was to make airships rigid, so superseding the early blimps, which were fatally vulnerable to leaks from the inflammable hydrogen used to inflate them.