fatality
Accident's worst result
A fatality is a death, particularly one resulting from an accident, disaster, or violent incident.
The word emphasizes the fatal outcome rather than the circumstances: The crash caused three fatalities.
Traffic reports, military briefings, and emergency services favor this clinical term over more emotionally charged alternatives like deaths or casualties.
Fatality can also refer to the quality of being destined or inevitable, though this philosophical sense is now rare outside academic contexts.
State of eventual death
- demiseCessation of existence
- passingMoving by or temporary
- deceasedNo longer living
- casualtyPerson harmed in disaster
victim · killed · dead · expiration · extinction · cessation · obituary · bereavement
Died during combat operations
- casualtyPerson harmed in disaster
- woundedHaving sustained harm
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- wartimePeriod of armed conflict
military · combat death · friendly fire · civilian · collateral damage · soldier · airstrike · engagement
Forceful contact between objects
- crashSudden violent impact
- wreckDestroyed vessel or vehicle
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- disasterSudden ruinous event
catastrophe · pileup · derailment · rollover · impact · incident · emergency · calamity
Lasting psychological wound
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- severeExtremely harsh or strict
- life-threateningRisking death
- acuteIntensely severe or perceptive
complications · hemorrhage · cardiac arrest · anaphylaxis · overdose · triage · resuscitate · prognosis
Predetermined course of events
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- inevitabilityQuality of being unavoidable
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
- predeterminedEstablished beforehand
foreordained · kismet · providence · mortal · finality · unavoidable · sealed
Measured speed or charge
- incidenceRate of occurrence
- dataFacts for analysis
- figuresNumerical values or forms
- mortality rateDeaths per population measured
death toll · demographics · epidemiology · numbers · records · reports · per capita · annual
Final failure message
- fragAttack with grenade
- killCause death
- headshotShoulders-up photograph
- respawnReappear after dying digitally
death screen · permadeath · one-hit kill · wipe · instant death · hardcore mode · lives
mortality
State of eventual death
casualty · victim · killed · dead · expiration · extinction · cessation · obituary · bereavement · funeral
killed in action
Died during combat operations
- casualtyPerson harmed in disaster
- woundedHaving sustained harm
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
wartime · military · combat death · friendly fire · civilian · collateral damage · soldier · airstrike · engagement · fallen
collision
Forceful contact between objects
disaster · catastrophe · pileup · derailment · rollover · impact · incident · emergency · calamity · smashup
trauma
Lasting psychological wound
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- severeExtremely harsh or strict
- life-threateningRisking death
acute · complications · hemorrhage · cardiac arrest · anaphylaxis · overdose · triage · resuscitate · prognosis · intensive care
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- inevitabilityQuality of being unavoidable
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
predetermined · foreordained · kismet · providence · mortal · finality · unavoidable · sealed
rate
Measured speed or charge
mortality rate · death toll · demographics · epidemiology · numbers · records · reports · per capita · annual · preventable
game over
Final failure message
respawn · death screen · permadeath · one-hit kill · wipe · instant death · hardcore mode · lives
- aviation disastersplane crash, air crash, midair collision, crash landing, crash site
- finishing blowsfinishing blow, final blow, deathblow, finisher, finishing move
- deathdead, deceased, corpse, mortality, demise
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- Road Safetyseatbelt, stop sign, speed limit, crosswalk, traffic light
- safetysafety helmet, hazard, airbag, alert, occupational safety
fatalitysurvivor
One still alive after
survival · near miss · injury · close call · walking wounded
- fatality rateProportion of deaths occurring
- traffic fatalitiesDeaths from vehicle collisions
- case fatality rateDeaths divided by diagnoses
fatalism, fatalities, fatalistic, fatalist, fatalistically, fatality rate