fatally
Causing certain death
Fatally means in a way that causes or results in death: He was fatally wounded in the crash.
The word extends to anything that proves ruinous or decisive: a fatally flawed argument, fatally undermined by scandal.
In both cases, fatally suggests an outcome that cannot be reversed or recovered from.
Able to cause expiration
- mortallyCausing or resulting in death
- lethallyWith deadly effect
- terminallyIncurably, toward death
- deathlyResembling the grave
destructively · catastrophically · ruinously · disastrously · devastatingly · grievously · critically · incurably
At the core level
- inherentlyBy essential nature
- intrinsicallyBy its very nature
- essentiallyAt its core nature
- criticallyWith serious judgment
hopelessly · irredeemably · incurably · terminally · disastrously · catastrophically · ruinously · devastatingly
Beyond possible repair
- permanentlyIn an unchanging manner
- irrevocablyBeyond any taking back
- irreversiblyCannot be undone
- indeliblyUnable to be erased
irremediably · unalterably · unchangeably · inescapably · inevitably · inexorably · terminally · finally
In a decisive manner
- criticallyWith serious judgment
- pivotallyIn critical manner
- climacticallyAt the dramatic peak
- conclusivelyIn a final, undeniable manner
definitively · finally · ultimately · resolutely · absolutely · unequivocally · irrevocably · bindingly
deadly
Able to cause expiration
- mortallyCausing or resulting in death
- lethallyWith deadly effect
- terminallyIncurably, toward death
deathly · destructively · catastrophically · ruinously · disastrously · devastatingly · grievously · critically · incurably · toxically
fundamentally
At the core level
- inherentlyBy essential nature
- intrinsicallyBy its very nature
- essentiallyAt its core nature
critically · hopelessly · irredeemably · incurably · terminally · disastrously · catastrophically · ruinously · devastatingly · doomed
irreparably
Beyond possible repair
- permanentlyIn an unchanging manner
- irrevocablyBeyond any taking back
- irreversiblyCannot be undone
indelibly · irremediably · unalterably · unchangeably · inescapably · inevitably · inexorably · terminally · finally · conclusively
crucially
In a decisive manner
- criticallyWith serious judgment
- pivotallyIn critical manner
- climacticallyAt the dramatic peak
conclusively · definitively · finally · ultimately · resolutely · absolutely · unequivocally · irrevocably · bindingly · authoritatively
fatallyharmlessly
Without causing damage
safely · mildly · benignly · innocuously · trivially
fatallyconfidently
With self-assurance
hopefully · optimistically · auspiciously · expectantly · defiantly
- fatal flawRuinous character defect
- fatal accidentUnintended event causing death
- fatal woundInjury causing death
- fatal errorUnrecoverable computing malfunction
- fatal blowLethal strike, ending life
- fatal attractionHarmful obsessive romantic pull
fatal, fatality, fatalism, nonfatal, fatalities, fatalistic, fatalist, fatalists, nonfatally