nonfatal

1. 1.

   not bringing death

   “nonfatal heart attack”

   Antonymsfatal

   Similarnonlethal

Questions about nonfatal

What does nonfatal mean?

nonfatal means "not bringing death".

How many syllables are in nonfatal?

nonfatal has 3 syllables: non-fa-tal. The stress falls on "non". In IPA it is /ˈnɑnˈfeɪtəl/.

What is the opposite of nonfatal?

The recorded antonyms are fatal.

Is nonfatal a common word?

nonfatal 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.