lethal
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Definition of lethal
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
-
Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
“Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.”
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adj
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Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
“Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.”
noun
- Any weapon that causes death.
- An allele that causes the death of the organism that carries it.
- (uncountable)One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lētālis (“deadly, mortal, fatal”), improperly written lēthālis, from lētum (“death”), improperly written as lēthum, from a supposed connection with Ancient Greek λήθη (lḗthē, “oblivion, forgetfulness”).
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