fatally
[ˈfeɪ̯ɾl̩i]
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Ultimately, with finality or irrevocability, moving towards the demise of something.
adv
Fatedly; according to the dictates of fate or doom.
Example Sentences
- "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;"
- "He told Peace that he did not believe his statement that he had fired the pistol merely to frighten the constable; had not Robinson guarded his head with his arm he would have been wounded fatally, and Peace condemned to death."
- "A 22-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for fatally stabbing 22-year-old Tashan Daniel in an unprovoked attack at Hillingdon Underground station on September 24 2019."
- "One of the Louisville detectives who fatally shot Breonna Taylor during a botched raid is appealing his termination this week."
- "White, too, was found dead—fatally shot—at the scene."
- ""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 endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?"
Etymology
Etymology tree English fatal Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English fatally From fatal + -ly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: [ˈfeɪ̯ɾl̩i]
Inflected Forms
more fatally (comparative)
most fatally (superlative)