Fateful \Fate"ful\, a. .
Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. "The
fateful steel." --J. Barlow.
[1913 Webster]
2. Significant of fate; ominous.
[1913 Webster]
The fateful cawings of the crow. --Longfellow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fateful
adj 1: having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that
fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on
North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the
election finally arrived" [syn: fatal]
2: of ominous significance [syn: foreboding(a), portentous]
3: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
consequences; bringing ruin; "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"- Charles
Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to
win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black,
calamitous, disastrous, fatal]
4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal
series of events" [syn: fatal]
WordNet (r) 2.0
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "fateful":
acute, apocalyptic, appointed, awe-inspiring, bad, baleful,
baneful, black, bodeful, boding, calamitous, cataclysmal,
cataclysmic, catastrophic, certain, conclusive, consequential,
consuming, consumptive, critical, crucial, dark, deadly, decisive,
demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destined,
destroying, destructive, determinative, devastating, devoted, dire,
direful, disastrous, doomed, doomful, dreary, earnest, evil,
evil-starred, fatal, fated, foreboding, foredoomed, formidable,
fratricidal, gloomy, grave, heavy, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated,
ill-omened, ill-starred, important, imposing, in store,
in the cards, inauspicious, indefeasible, ineluctable, inescapable,
inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, inflexible, internecine,
irresistible, irrevocable, lethal, lowering, major, marked,
menacing, momentous, necessary, nihilist, nihilistic,
of evil portent, ominous, ordained, pivotal, portending,
portentous, ravaging, relentless, resistless, ruining, ruinous,
self-destructive, serious, significant, sinister, sober, solemn,
somber, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, sure, sure as death,
sure as fate, threatening, unavoidable, uncontrollable,
undeflectable, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpreventable,
unpromising, unpropitious, unstoppable, untoward, unyielding,
vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, weighty,
withering, written
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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