nonfatal

Other forms: nonfatally

Definitions of nonfatal
  1. adjective
    not bringing death
    “nonfatal heart attack”
    synonyms:
    nonlethal
    not capable of causing death
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    antonyms:
    fatal
    bringing death
    deadly, deathly, mortal
    causing or capable of causing death
    deadly, lethal
    of an instrument of certain death
    terminal
    causing or ending in or approaching death
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