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Fateful

Fateful Meaning & Definition
Fateful Definition And Meaning

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

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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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