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Synonyms for fatal

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

controlled or decreed by fate

That fatal meeting changed the course of both their lives.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

fateful

Same sentence, swapped: That fateful meeting changed the course of both their lives.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for fatal as it is used in the sentence above.

mortal
brutal
risky

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Closest first: other words at Ridgeline, then their alphabetical neighbours.

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