Lethal meaning
The definition of lethal is something very harmful or destructive, especially something that could cause death.
A gun shot wound is an example of something that could be described as a lethal wound.
adjective
Causing or capable of causing death.
A lethal weapon.
adjective
Extremely harmful; devastating.
Accusations lethal to the candidate's image.
adjective
Causing or capable of causing death; fatal or deadly.
adjective
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(chemistry) One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.
noun
Origin of lethal
- Late Latin lēthālis alteration (probably influenced by Lēthē Lethe) of Latin lētālis from lētum death
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Latin lÄ“tÄlis (“mortal, deadly"), improperly written lethalis, from letum (“death"), improperly written as lethum, as associated with Greek λήθη (lethe, “forgetfulness").
From Wiktionary
- Abbreviation of “lauric acid ethereal salt", so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.
From Wiktionary