English-Thai Dictionary

fatality

N ความตาย ที่ มาจาก อุบัติเหตุ หรือ สงคราม  ความตาย  accident dying mortality kwam-tai-ti-ma-jak-u-bad-ti-hed-rue-song-kram

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FATALITY

n. 1. A fixed unalterable course of things, independent of God or any controlling cause; an invincible necessity existing in things themselves; a doctrine of the Stoics.
2. Decree of fate.
3. Tendency to danger, or to some great or hazardous event.
4. Mortality.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FATALITY

Fa *tal "i *ty, n.;pl. Fatalities. Etym: [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalité ]

 

1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.

 

2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne.By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.

 

3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fatality

fa tal i ty |fāˈtalətē, fə -fəˈtælədi | ▶noun ( pl. fatalities ) 1 an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease: shooting was heard and there were fatalities. • a person killed in this way. 2 helplessness in the face of fate: the plot needs a darker sense of fatality to cover its absurdities. ORIGIN late 15th cent. (denoting the quality of causing death or disaster ): from French fatalité, from late Latin fatalitas, from Latin fatalis ‘decreed by fate, ’ from fatum (see fate ). Sense 1 dates from the mid 19th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

fatality

fatality |fəˈtalɪti, feɪ -| ▶noun ( pl. fatalities ) 1 an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease: 80 per cent of pedestrian fatalities occur in built-up areas. 2 [ mass noun ] helplessness in the face of fate: a sense of fatality gripped her. ORIGIN late 15th cent. (denoting the quality of causing death or disaster ): from French fatalité or late Latin fatalitas, from Latin fatalis ‘decreed by fate ’, from fatum (see fate ). Sense 1 dates from the mid 19th cent.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fatality

fatality noun news of this fatality has spread quickly: death, casualty, mortality, victim; fatal accident.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fatality

fatality noun 1 there were hundreds of fatalities from radiation contamination: death, casualty, mortality, victim, loss, dead person; (fatalities ) dead. 2 the programme is a recipe for increased fatalities on our roads: fatal accident, tragedy, disaster, catastrophe, calamity.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fatality

fa tal i ty /feɪtǽləti |fə -/名詞 複 -ties 1 C ｟かたく ｠(事故 災害などによる )死, 死亡者 (数 )▸ fatality rate 死亡率, 致死率 2 U (病気の )致死性, 致命的なこと .3 U 宿命 (性 ), 運命 (論 )(fatalism ); 人間の無力さ .