Associations to the word «Fateful»
Noun
- Encounter
- Coincidence
- Custer
- Voyage
- Mead
- Decision
- Confrontation
- Morn
- Destiny
- Night
- Macbeth
- Lightning
- Morning
- Tiding
- Brie
- Doom
- Trip
- Penance
- Empress
- Triangle
- Samurai
- Gladstone
- Rider
- Duel
- Choice
- Expedition
- Telegram
- Consequence
- Meeting
- Evening
- Yuan
- Journey
- Gloom
- Day
- Dark
- Afternoon
- Fate
- Climax
- Battle
- Moment
- Decree
- Recollection
- Regret
- Movie
- Countenance
- Heap
- Hare
- Flight
- Chord
- Ox
- Silence
- Revolt
- Hitler
- Tragedy
- Event
- Julius
- Mistake
- Dagger
- Sicily
- Ambition
- Glory
- Passion
- Sion
- Clearing
- Hour
- Birthday
- Siege
- Dream
- Margaret
Adjective
Adverb
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Wiktionary
FATEFUL, adjective. Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.
FATEFUL, adjective. Determined in advance by fate, fated.
Dictionary definition
FATEFUL, 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".
FATEFUL, adjective. Ominously prophetic.
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, adjective. Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.