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fateful
[ feyt-fuhl ]
adjective
- having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important; portentous:
a fateful meeting between the leaders of the two countries.
- fatal, deadly, or disastrous.
- controlled or determined by destiny; inexorable.
- prophetic; ominous.
fateful
/ ˈfeɪtfʊl /
adjective
- having important consequences; decisively important
- bringing death or disaster
- controlled by or as if by fate
- prophetic
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Derived Forms
- ˈfatefulness, noun
- ˈfatefully, adverb
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Other Words From
- fateful·ly adverb
- fateful·ness noun
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Example Sentences
The Malaysian crew said they could not comply—the report gives no reason for what was very likely a fateful decision.
Lindsay Lohan was also spotted at the restaurant that fateful night.
On that fateful Friday, July 13th, Sanders joined Democratic staff investigator Scott Armstrong in questioning Butterfield.
In the wake of that fateful 2008 evening, Cotillard has worked for, and alongside, some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
A few days after this fateful visit, each visionary reported seeing images of rivers of blood and headless corpses.
As the music wailed its dying cadences into this fateful silence, Tom met her eyes across the room.
Winifred, naturally a high-spirited and lively girl, soon recovered from the fright of that fateful Sunday evening.
But the immediate interest centres in the fateful attempt to relieve the castle of Stirling.
She had declared that she arrived at Hill Street about seven o'clock on that fateful second of September.
On this fateful date, the feature had been completed and the afterpiece was being enacted.
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