单词 | fateful |
释义 | fateful (once / 2262 pages) adj A fateful moment is one that seems impossible to avoid. And when a fateful event occurs, it feels like it will have a big impact on your future — and usually not in a good way. “I can fit my head into this jar!” — fateful words that resulted in a trip to the hospital. Most of the time, fateful spells disaster. There was the fateful day you left your guinea pig’s cage door open, and there are fateful decisions that seem innocent at the time, but come back to haunt you later. Fate is the idea that your life is mapped out, and a fateful instance is one significant landmark on that map. WORD FAMILYfateful: fatefulest, fatefully+/fate: fated, fateful, fates, fating/fated: ill-fated USAGE EXAMPLESOn Monday, Fawaz wrote of the fateful day in a Twitter post. Time(Dec 27, 2016) As Wilson and others describe their candid and complex emotional reactions to the events that unfolded that fateful day, “Tower” becomes transcendent. Salon(Dec 19, 2016) One other way to look at Trump’s fateful appointment is not just as a reply, but as an action. Time(Dec 16, 2016) 1adj controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined Syn fatal inevitable incapable of being avoided or prevented 2adj ominously prophetic Syn foreboding, portentous prophetic, prophetical foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention 3adj having momentous consequences; of decisive importance "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev Syn fatal decisive determining or having the power to determine an outcome 4adj (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin a fateful error Syn black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal unfortunate not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune |
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