fatefuladjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈfeɪt.fəl/us/ˈfeɪt.fəl/having an important and usually negative effect on the future:
the fateful day of President Kennedy's assassination
He made the fateful decision to send in the troops.
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Good luck and bad luck
- a blessing in disguise idiom
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be a good idiom
- be bad luck on sb idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- blessing
- favour
- grace
- hapless
- happenstance
- happily
- hard luck! idiom
- lap
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- mixed blessing
- Murphy's law
- shame
- stroke
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