fait accompli

1. 1.

   an irreversible accomplishment

   Synonymsaccomplished fact

   Broaderaccomplishment

Questions about fait accompli

What does fait accompli mean?

fait accompli means "an irreversible accomplishment".

What is another word for fait accompli?

Close synonyms include accomplished fact. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fait accompli a common word?

fait accompli is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.