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Definitions: Fatal |
FatalAdjective1. Bringing death. 2. Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived". 3. (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". 4. Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fatal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Fatal \Fa"tal\, adjective. [Latin expression fatalis, from fatum: compare to the French expression fatal. See Fate.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Computing | Fatal |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| FAR | English | Fatal accident rate | Environment |
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Synonyms: FatalSynonyms: black (adj), calamitous (adj), disastrous (adj), fateful (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nonfatal (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attack | Phrase: "the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony, the groan of death"; "their fatal hands no second stroke intend"; "thirst for glory quells the love of life". |
Beauty | Phrase: auxilium non leve vultus habet; "beauty born of murmuring sound"; "flowers preach to us if we will hear"; gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus; "none but the brave deserve the fair"; "thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty". |
Death | Euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease. (disease); death blow. (killing). |
Disease | Fatal disease; (hopeless); dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system. |
Killing | Mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous, lethiferous; unhealthy; internecine; suicidal. |
Fatal accident, violent death, casualty. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Didn't you see Fatal Attraction? (Sleepless in Seattle; writing credit: Nora Ephron) Course in 1986 46,400 male drivers were definitely involved in fatal accidents. (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce) Yeah, that poor old yellow-tailed guy developed a fatal case of indigestion. (Romancing the Stone; writing credit: Diane Thomas) Why don't you go out and look for a nice fatal accident? (You Can't Have Everything; writing credit: Gregory Ratoff; Harry Tugend) | |
Lyrics | That fatal kiss is all we need ("A View to a Kill"; performing artist: Duran Duran) I've never been fatal, you're my first time ("I'm Your Baby Tonight"; performing artist: Whitney Houston) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fatal Kicks in Kung Fu (1971) Melodia Fatal (1964) Usted tiene ojos de mujer fatal (1962) Trampa fatal (1961) Fatal Journey (1954) | |
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 | Rabies in humans is almost always fatal. Symptoms may be headache, fatigue, fever and pain at the site of the bite can be present. Behavioral changes like apprehension, anxiety, agitation, irritability, insomnia and depression may also appear.Credit: CDC. |  | Photomicrograph of Bacillus anthracis in lung tissue in a case of fatal inhalation anthrax; B&B stain, Mag. 500x.Credit: CDC. |
 | The Scott shelter at Cape Evans - He departed from this shelter on his fatal trip to the South Pole.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | [A child with kuru, a fatal nervous system disorder] / WHO photo.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Children with kuru, a fatal nervous system disorder] / WHO photo.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Photographed at the time of a fatal gun accident on board, January 1926. The photograph's original caption (which does not completely fit the image) reads: "One Sailor was killed and seven other members of the forward four-inch gun crew received minor injuries as a result of the premature explosion of the gun during battle torpedo practice off Point Loma, California, January 1926. The gun is in the center, foreground.".Credit: NAVY. |
 | Sinking after she was near-missed by a "Kamikaze" suicide aircraft off Okinawa, 10 June 1945. USS LCS-86 and another LCS are alongside, taking off her crew. Though not actually hit by the enemy plane, William D. Porter received fatal underwater damage from the near-by explosion.Credit: NAVY. |  | One false move could be fatal.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Navy's first full-pressure flight suit successfully demonstrated at 70,000 ft. altitude protects the pilot above, where lack of pressure is fatal in a few seconds. LCDR. Harry Peck demonstrated the suit.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wives of "duster pilots" recover plane which has been damaged. In this dangerous occupation crashes are common but rarely fatal because of low speed, low altitude and high operating skill. Note farm machinery in background. Seabrook Farms, between Bridget.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Camille Desmoulins | I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. |
Henry James | The fatal futility of Fact. |
John Wooden | Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. |
Oscar Wilde | Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. |
| A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal. |
| The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. | |
William Cowper | Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. |
William Gilmore Simms | Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. |
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John Locke | 1690 | But if they universally have a persuation, grounded upon manifest evidence, that designs are carrying on against their liberties, and the general course and tendency of things cannot but give them strong suspicions of the evil intention of their governors, who is to be blamed for it? Who can help it, if they, who might avoid it, bring themselves into this suspicion? Are the people to be blamed, if they have the sense of rational creatures, and can think of things no otherwise than as they find and feel them? And is it not rather their fault, who put things into such a posture, that they would not have them thought to be as they are? I grant, that the pride, ambition, and turbulency of private men have sometimes caused great disorders in commonwealths, and factions have been fatal to states and kingdoms. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1916) |
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Lays of Mystery Imagination and Humour | Carroll, Lewis | The fatal Notes neglected fall, No creature heeds the treacherous call, For all those goodly Strawn Baits Pall. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Each of the two ideas which counselled him, appeared to him as fatal as the other. |
Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | BE A MAN - DO YOURSELF IN. HAVE A FATAL ACCIDENT TODAY. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents, whereof great numbers are on record. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Poison is not poisonous after all, nor are any wounds fatal. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The latter can be fatal. (references) | |
LCM is usually not fatal. (references) | ||
Fatal cases have been reported. (references) | ||
Business | In 1999 excessive speed contributed to 124 fatal crashes, 350 serious injury crashes and 848 minor injury crashes. (references) | |
Such a request would occur exclusively in the case where a pharmacy or hospital has immediate need of a specific U.S. treatment for cancer, AIDS, or fatal infections, for which the subject medicinal is being successfully marketed within the United States but is not yet available in Germany. (references) | ||
Children | Nepal | Poor or nonexistent sanitation in rural areas puts many children at risk from severe and fatal illnesses. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Cameroon | In past years, violent and sometimes fatal confrontations have occurred repeatedly at such checkpoints when travelers would not or could not pay the bribes demanded by the security forces. (references) |
Economic History | Uk | Roughly a third of this amount will be applied to the railways, which have been, and will continue to be, the subject of an intensive regeneration plan following a fatal crash in October 2000. (references) |
Human Rights | Jamaica | The JCF conducted both administrative and criminal investigations into all incidents involving fatal shootings by the police. (references) |
Malaysia | In May a Coroner's Court ruled that there was no criminal wrongdoing in the fatal shooting at close range by police officers of six men who were shot in 1998. (references) | |
Lesotho | These deaths resulted from gunshot wounds and fatal beatings sustained during enforcement actions and during violent clashes between political party supporters. (references) | |
Political Economy | HONG KONG | In 2000, a total of 58,092 occupational accidents (33,652 of which are classified as industrial accidents) were reported, of which 199 were fatal. (references) |
Political Rights | Saudi Arabia | Al-Masari expressed the CDLR's "understanding" of two fatal terrorist bombings of U.S. military facilities in 1995 and 1996 and sympathy for the perpetrators. (references) |
Travel | Nepal | Visitors are cautioned to avoid traveling on night buses - fatal accidents are frequent. (references) |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | When serious or fatal industrial accidents occur, the authorities often fail to fully investigate and assign responsibility for negligence, if any. (references) |
Zimbabwe | There were 139 fatal job accidents reported and 12,000 occupational injuries in 1999. In theory labor relations officers from the MPSLSW are assigned to monitor developments in each plant to ensure that government minimum wage policy and occupational health and safety regulations are observed. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Jerry Lewis | Well, if you have pulmonary fibrosis, it could be fatal. It's a very dangerous disease. Your lungs go bad and breathing becomes a problem. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | In taking a view of the state of our country we in the first place notice the late affliction of two of our cities under the fatal fever which in latter times has occasionally visited our shores. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | History offers too many lessons of the fatal result of such a measure not to warn us against its adoption here. |
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| "Fatal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.97% of the time. "Fatal" is used about 1,375 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.97% | 1,347 | 5,904 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.96% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (common) | 0.07% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,375 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fatal": fatal accident ♦ fatal beating ♦ fatal disease ♦ fatal error ♦ fatal exception ♦ fatal hemorrhage ♦ fatal injury ♦ Fatal Outcome ♦ fatal sister ♦ non fatal accident. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fatal": near-fatal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fatal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fatal (baneful, deathly, fateful, feral, pernicious, vital), vdekjeprurës (baneful, basilisk, deadly, feral, homicidal, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, murderous, pestilent, pestilential, vital), shkatërrimtar (calamitous, crushing, destructive, disastrous, internecine, killing, pestilent, pestilential, shattering, slaughterous, suicidal, vandalistic), i pandreqshëm (beyond retrieve, compulsive, hopeless, incorrigible, inveterate, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irremediable, irreparable, irretraceable, irretrievable, perverse, remediless, unimprovable), gjëmëmadhe (sinister). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كارثة (blow, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, disaster, evil, fate, grief, holocaust, plague, scourge, shambles), مميت (deadly, deathly, fateful, gangrenous, grave, internecine, lethal, mortal, pernicious), مهلك (annihilating, baleful, baneful, deadly, deathly, destructive, internecine, lethal, murderous, pernicious, pestilent, ruinous, withering), مقدر (estimated, evaluated, fated, fateful, implied, predestined, rated, tacit), مصيري (crucial, fateful), نبوئي (oracular, predictive, prophetic), قدري. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съдбоносен (crucial, fateful, vital, weird), смъртоносен (deadly, homicidal, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, murderous, pestilent), смъртен (capital, clayey, deadly, death, deathly, earthborn, mortal, mortuary), фатален (fateful, inevitable, irrevocable, lethal, portentous, vital, weird), гибелен (disastrous, fateful, homicidal, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, suicidal, swart), важен (consequential, dignified, grave, importable, important, magisterial, major, material, mighty, necessitous, newsy, pompous, pontifical, portentous, prominent, sage, serious, significant, solemn, sounding, staple, substantial, top-line, weighty), неизбежен (impending, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, infallible, necessary, resistless, unavoidable, unpreventable), пагубен (baleful, baneful, calamitous, damnific, detrimental, evil, fateful, homicidal, malign, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, ruinous, subversive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 致命 (Deadly, Deathly, Fatalities, Fatality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | smrtelný (deadly, deathlike, deathly, killing, lethal, mortal, unrelieved, unutterable), rozhodující (chief, commanding, critical, crucial, decisive, determinative, main, predominant, supreme, vital, winning), osudový (fateful, inescapable), osudný (catastrophic, fated, fateful, ill fated, lethal, ominous, vital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fatal (lethal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | fataal (fateful, ill-fated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مهلک (Deadly, Dire, Lethal, Mortal, Noxious, Pernicious), مصیبت امیز (Disastrous), کشنده (Attractive, Deadly, Killer, Mortal, Murderous, Pernicious, Tracker), وخیم (Critical, Crucial, Dire, Serious, Tense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kohtalokas (fateful, ill-fated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fatal (fateful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fatal (awkward, dire, embarrassing, fateful, ill-fated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καίριοσ (crucial, well timed), μοιραίοσ (fateful, inevitable), θανάσιμος (mortal), θανατηφόροσ (deadly, lethal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ר" אסון (calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | végzetes (catastrophic, fated, fateful, fey, mortal, ruinous, suicidal, tragic, tragical), halálos (deadly, deathly, fatalities, killing, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, pestilent), halált okozó, fatális. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | fatal, membawa maut (deadly, lethal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fatale (destined, fated, fateful, inevitable), letale (deadly, lethal, mortal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 致死 (lethal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | フェータル , いのちとり, ちめいてき (lethal), ちめい (age 50, place name, well-known), ちし (lethal, resignation, seventy years of age, topography, wisdom tooth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 치명 (Deadly, lethal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | marrooagh (deadly, internecine, lethal, overpowering), baasoil (deadly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | skjebnesvanger (fateful), dødbringende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atalfay fatal (deadly, earth-born, fateful, inevitable, knockout, pernicious, pestilent). (various references) funest (baneful, calamitous, deadly, disastrous, fateful, feral, sinister), fatal (deadly, deathly, fateful, feral, inevitably, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, vital, weird), ucigaş (assassin, bloodthirsty, bravo, choker, cut throat, deadly, felon, homicidal, homicide, killer, murderer, murderous, sanguinary, thug), otrãvitor (baneful, corrupting, noisome, noxious, perverting, poisoner, poisonous, venomous), mortal (deadly, deathly, fatally, killing, lethal, mortally, to death, vital), inevitabil (implacable, ineluctable, inevitable, inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, unavoidable, unavoidably). (various references) смертельный (deadly, deathly, killing, lethal, lethiferous, mortal), роковой (basilisk, fateful), пагубный (baleful, calamitous, damned, damnific, evil, harmful, hurtful, malefic, maleficent, malign, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial). (various references) fatalan, ubitačan (baneful, hurtful, murderous, pernicious), smrtonosan (baneful, lethal, lethiferous), smrtan (deadly, mortal), koban (calamitous, deathly, dire, fateful, malign, portentous, unhappy). (various references) mortal (deadly, deathly, earth-born, killer, killing, lethal, mortal, mortally), fatal (deadly, desperate, dire, dismal, fateful, ghastly, ill-fated, lethal). (various references) dödlig (deadly, deathly, earthborn, fell, killing, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, terminal). (various references) ซึ่งทำให้ถึงตาย, ซึ่งทำให้ล้มเหลว. (various references) vahim (desperate, desperately, forbidding, sore), mahvedici (crushing), kaderde olan (fated), kader (destiny, dispensation, doom, fatality, fate, foreordination, fortune, karma, lot, Moira, predestination, Providence), kaçınılmaz (fated, fateful, imperious, indispensable, ineluctable, inevitable, inextricable, irremissible, unavoidable, urgent), öldürücü (baneful, deadly, deathlike, deathly, fateful, fell, homicidal, killing, lethal, murderous, perishing, pestilent, pestilential, virulent, vital), ölümle biten, ölümcül (deadly, pernicious). (various references) фатальний (basilisk, deathly, fateful, fey, weird), згубний (baneful, calamitous, damnatory, damnific, damning, deleterious, destructive, holocaustal, holocaustic, maleficent, malign, malignant, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, prejudicial, prejudicious, ruinous, withering). (various references) tiền định (fateful), tai hại (baneful, calamitous, disastrous, harm), tai ác, quỷ quái (devil-like), l m nguy hiểm đến tính mạng, l m chết, không tránh được quyết định; gây tai hoạ, chỗ ngon mỡ, chỗ béo bở, chí tử, có số mệnh, đem lại cái chết tính ma quỷ, đưa đến chỗ chết. (various references) marwol (deadly, mortal), angheuol (deadly, mortal), anaelau (extremely, pain, sadness, terrible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | funebri, letalis, mortiferae, mortiferum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fatal": fatalism, fatalisms, fatalist, fatalistic, fatalistically, fatalists, fatalities, fatality, fatally. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "fatal": nonfatal. (additional references) | |
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"Fatal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afal, Afdal, afta, Afzal, atal, Attal, Atwal, batal, catal, datal, faba, fabal, facal, Fachralo, Factel, fadil, Faha, falta, Fanal, fantan, Faral, fartel, fartlek, fasal, fastel, fata, Fatae, fatah, fatalr, fatals, fatan, Fatar, fatels, Fathalla, fatile, Fatma, Fatou, fatta, fattal, fattily, fatum, faval, Fayal, fazal, fetals, fetial, fiata, fidal, fital, fitba, Fittall, frata, Ftao, ftel, futal, futbal, iatul, satal, tatal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fatal" (pronounced fā"tul) |
| 5 | f ā" t u l | nonfatal. |
| 4 | -ā" t u l | Natal, neonatal, postnatal, prenatal. |
| 3 | -t u l | accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, congenital, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, digital, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, extramarital, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, genital, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, infantile, infertile, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, marital, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, nettle, noncommittal, nongovernmental, nonvolatile, occidental, occipital, orbital, oriental, ornamental, parental, parietal, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, premarital, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle, Wintle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-l-t" | |
-1 letter: alfa, flat, tala. | |
-2 letters: aal, aft, ala, alt, fat, lat. | |
-3 letters: aa, al, at, fa, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-l-t" | |
+1 letter: afloat. | |
+2 letters: catfall, factual, falcate, fantail, fatally, flatcap, flatcar, fractal, tailfan. | |
+3 letters: afflatus, calctufa, califate, catfalls, falcated, faltboat, fantails, fastball, fatalism, fatalist, fatality, fayalite, flagrant, flatboat, flatcaps, flatcars, flathead, flatland, flatmate, flatware, flatwash, flatways, floatage, fractals, kalifate, meatloaf, nonfatal, pratfall, taffarel, taffrail, tailfans, toadflax. | |
+4 letters: affiliate, aflatoxin, afterclap, allograft, calctufas, califates, defalcate, draftable, faceplate, factional, factorial, factually, faltboats, fanatical, fastballs, fatalisms, fatalists, fatidical, fatigable, fayalites, flagstaff, flatboats, flatheads, flatlands, flatmates, flatwares, floatages, fraternal, kalifates, leafstalk, pratfalls, solfatara, sulfatase, taffarels, taffrails, ultrafast, ultrasafe, waterfall, waterleaf. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 74 61 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- - .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01110100 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a t a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0074 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067866778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Orthography 24. Bibliography |
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