fateful
11fateful — fate|ful [ feıtfəl ] adjective a fateful action, event, or time is one that has an important and usually bad effect on what happens in the future: Since that fateful day her life had not been worth living …
12fateful — [[t]fe͟ɪtfʊl[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If an action or a time when something happened is described as fateful, it is considered to have an important, and often very bad, effect on future events. It was a fateful decision, one which was to break… …
13fateful — adjective having an important, especially bad, effect on future events: that fateful day | It was a fateful decision which was to change the rest of his life. fatefully adverb …
14fateful — adjective 1) that fateful day Syn: decisive, critical, crucial, pivotal; momentous, important, key, significant, historic, portentous; informal earth shattering, earth shaking See note at ominous Ant …
15fateful — UK [ˈfeɪtf(ə)l] / US [ˈfeɪtfəl] adjective a fateful action, event, or time is one that has an important and usually bad effect on what happens in the future Since that fateful day her life had not been worth living …
16fateful — fatefully, adv. fatefulness, n. /fayt feuhl/, adj. 1. having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important; portentous: a fateful meeting between the leaders of the two countries. 2. fatal, deadly, or disastrous. 3. controlled or… …
17fateful — adjective a) Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate. It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards. b) Determined in advance by fate, fated …
18fateful — See fatal. See fatal, fateful …
19fateful — adj. Fateful is used with these nouns: ↑day, ↑decision, ↑encounter, ↑meeting, ↑morning, ↑night, ↑word …
20fateful — fate•ful [[t]ˈfeɪt fəl[/t]] adj. 1) having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important; portentous: a fateful meeting[/ex] 2) fatal, deadly, or disastrous 3) controlled or determined by destiny; inexorable 4) prophetic; ominous • …
