Meaning of FATEFUL
| Pronunciation: | | 'feytful
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- [adj] controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] (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"
- [adj] of ominous significance
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| | Synonyms: | | black, calamitous, decisive, disastrous, fatal, foreboding(a), inevitable, portentous, prophetic, prophetical, unfortunate |
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| | Definition: | | \Fate"ful\, a. .
Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. ``The
fateful steel.'' --J. Barlow.
2. Significant of fate; ominous.
The fateful cawings of the crow. --Longfellow.
-- {Fate"ful*ly}, adv.- {Fate"ful*ness}, n.
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