About The Word Fateful
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Fateful
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What's The Definition Of Fateful?
[adj] controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
[adj] having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived" [adj] (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [adj] of ominous significance Synonyms | Synonyms for Fateful: black | calamitous | decisive | disastrous | fatal | foreboding(a) | inevitable | portentous | prophetic | prophetical | unfortunate Related Terms | Find terms related to Fateful: acute | apocalyptic | appointed | awe-inspiring | bad | baleful | baneful | black | bodeful | boding | calamitous | cataclysmal | cataclysmic | catastrophic | certain | conclusive | consequential | consuming | consumptive | critical | crucial | dark | deadly | decisive | demolishing | demolitionary | depredatory | desolating | destined | destroying | destructive | determinative | devastating | devoted | dire | direful | disastrous | doomed | doomful | dreary | earnest | evil | evil-starred | fatal | fated | foreboding | foredoomed | formidable | fratricidal | gloomy | grave | heavy | ill | ill-boding | ill-fated | ill-omened | ill-starred | important | imposing | in store | in the cards | inauspicious | indefeasible | ineluctable | inescapable | inevasible | inevitable | inexorable | inflexible | internecine | irresistible | irrevocable | lethal | lowering | major | marked | menacing | momentous | necessary | nihilist | nihilistic | of evil portent | ominous | ordained | pivotal | portending | portentous | ravaging | relentless | resistless | ruining | ruinous | self-destructive | serious | significant | sinister | sober | solemn | somber | subversionary | subversive | suicidal | sure | sure as death | sure as fate | threatening | unavoidable | uncontrollable | undeflectable | unfavorable | unfortunate | unlucky | unpreventable | unpromising | unpropitious | unstoppable | untoward | unyielding | vandalic | vandalish | vandalistic | wasteful | wasting | weighty | withering | written See Also | Fateful In Webster's Dictionary \Fate"ful\, a. .
Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. ``The
fateful steel.'' --J. Barlow.
2. Significant of fate; ominous.
The fateful cawings of the crow. --Longfellow.
-- {Fate"ful*ly}, adv.- {Fate"ful*ness}, n.
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