fatal vs ill-fated

fatal

adj
  • Foreboding death or great disaster. 

  • Causing a sudden end to the running of a program. 

  • Causing death or destruction. 

  • Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny. 

noun
  • A fatality; an event that leads to death. 

  • A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate. 

ill-fated

adj
  • unlucky; doomed. 

How often have the words fatal and ill-fated occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )