FATEFUL

fatal, fateful

(adjective) controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; “a fatal series of events”

fateful, fatal

(adjective) 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”

black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful

(adjective) (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”

fateful, foreboding, portentous

(adjective) ominously prophetic

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

fateful (comparative more fateful, superlative most fateful)

Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.

Determined in advance by fate, fated.

Source: Wiktionary

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Fate"ful, a. .

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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