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Definition of fateful

adjective:

• having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; - Saturday Rev; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea", "the fatal day of the election finally arrived". Synonyms: fatal.
• ominously prophetic. Synonyms: foreboding, portentous.
• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; ; ; ; - Charles Darwin; - Douglas MacArthur; "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", "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it", "a fateful error". Synonyms: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal.
• controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events". Synonyms: fatal.

Words nearby

hateful.

Rhymes with

grateful, hateful, ungrateful.