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[ feyt-fuhl ] / ˈfeɪt fəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR fateful ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivehaving 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. Origin of fatefulFirst recorded in 1705–15; fate + -ful synonym study for fateful1, 4. See ominous. OTHER WORDS FROM fatefulfate·ful·ly, adverbfate·ful·ness, nounWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH fatefulfatal, fateful Words nearby fatefulfat chance, Fat City, fat depot, fate, fated, fateful, fate map, fat embolism, Fates, fat farm, fat-finger Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fatefulThe Malaysian crew said they could not comply—the report gives no reason for what was very likely a fateful decision. MH17 Switched Places With Another Jet|Clive Irving|September 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST Lindsay Lohan was also spotted at the restaurant that fateful night. The Tiny Prince of Ibiza Parties On, While Kim and Paris Make Peace|Amy Zimmerman|August 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST On that fateful Friday, July 13th, Sanders joined Democratic staff investigator Scott Armstrong in questioning Butterfield. How Nixon’s Recording System Was Exposed|Eleanor Clift|August 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST In the wake of that fateful 2008 evening, Cotillard has worked for, and alongside, some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Marion Cotillard on Playing a Prostitute in ‘The Immigrant’ and Seducing America|Marlow Stern|May 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A few days after this fateful visit, each visionary reported seeing images of rivers of blood and headless corpses. Did the Virgin Mary Warn Rwanda’s Holiest Town of the Genocide?|Nina Strochlic|April 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST By this time the year 1820 had passed and the fateful spring of 1821 was well advanced. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte|William Milligan Sloane The 24th found the battalion back at Couin, where they were to stay until the fateful 1st July. The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.)|Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell Came Friday afternoon with its last rehearsal and then the fateful night. Judy of York Hill|Ethel Hume Patterson Bennett Adams then arose and uttered the fateful words, "This meeting can do nothing more to save the country." The fateful word fell upon that assemblage with truly sinister meaning. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel|Mary E. Hanshew
British Dictionary definitions for fateful
adjectivehaving important consequences; decisively important bringing death or disaster controlled by or as if by fate prophetic Derived forms of fatefulfatefully, adverbfatefulness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to fatefuleventful, decisive, crucial, momentous, fatal, calamitous, disastrous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, acute, apocalyptic, conclusive, critical, direful, important, inauspicious, ominous, portentous, determinative, doomful |