'Fateful' definitions:
Definition of 'fateful'
From: WordNet
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" [syn: fateful, fatal]
adjective
Ominously prophetic [syn: fateful, foreboding(a), portentous]
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" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]
adjective
Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events" [syn: fatal, fateful]
Definition of 'Fateful'
From: GCIDE
- 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. -- {Fate"ful*ly}, adv.- {Fate"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fateful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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