Fatal vs Gentle - What's the difference?
fatal | gentle |
Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
Foreboding]] or great [[#Noun, disaster.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
Causing death or destruction.
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*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (lb) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.
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A fatality; an event that leads to death.
* 1999 , Flying Magazine (volume 126, number 4, April 1999, page 15)
(computing) A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.
Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 Docile and easily managed.
Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
Polite and respectful rather than rude.
(archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
* Johnson's Cyc.
* Milton
As adjectives the difference between fatal and gentle
is that fatal is proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny while gentle is tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.As nouns the difference between fatal and gentle
is that fatal is a fatality; an event that leads to death while gentle is (archaic) a person of high birth.As a verb gentle is
to become gentle.fatal
English
Adjective
(-)George Goodchild
Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
Synonyms
* (proceeding from fate) inevitable, necessary * (foreboding death) terminal * (causing death) calamitous, deadly, destructive, mortalDerived terms
* fatalism * fatalistic * fatality * fatally * nonfatal * nonfatallyNoun
(en noun)- The best accident rate in general aviation is in corporate/executive flying at 0.17 per 100000 hours for fatals and .50 for total accidents.
Anagrams
* ----gentle
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
- a gentle horse
- British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle , or simple.
- the studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time