ˈfād. ə lē, ˈfāt ə l-, - ə li adverb
Etymology: Middle English, from fatal + -ly
1. : in a way established or determined by fate
who would not say, with Huxley, let me be wound up every day like a watch, to go right fatally , and I ask no better freedom — William James
the temptation becomes more and more insidious and she is more fatally bound to yield — H.M.Parshley
2. : in a manner suggesting fate or an act of fate : inevitably or implacably
a man fatally stern
a kind of action that brings one fatally to perdition
as
a. : in a manner resulting in death : mortally
fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun
b. : beyond repair : irrevocably
find himself fatally humiliated before a hard cadre of French officers because he had not pulled his chauffeur out of a burning jeep — J.W.Chase
a conflict of ideas that will fatally divide the victors if they are not reconciled — F.S.Kinney
c. : in a manner resulting in ruin or evil : disastrously
this fatally ingenious explanation proved an obstacle for some time to a true view of the funciton of the arterial system — Benjamin Farrington
it is fatally easy to pass off our prejudices as our opinions — W.F.Hambly
d. : irresistibly
fatally attracted by vigorous, strong-willed women — Time
thinks she is fatally attractive — J.W.Krutch