Definition of "fatally"
fatally
adverb
comparative more fatally, superlative most fatally
Quotations
Ultimately, with finality or irrevocability, moving towards the demise of something.
Quotations
"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?
1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods
Fatedly; according to the dictates of fate or doom.
Quotations
He was a slender young man in hot black clothes; he wore the unfaçaded collar fatally and unanimously adopted by all adam's-apple men of morals; he was washed, fair, flat-skulled, clean-minded, and industrious; and the only noise of any kind he ever made in the world was on Sunday.
1913, Booth Tarkington, chapter 9, in The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 138