Fateful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fateful \Fate"ful\, a. .
     Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. "The
     fateful steel." --J. Barlow.
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     2. Significant of fate; ominous.


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              The fateful cawings of the crow.      --Longfellow.
        -- {Fate"ful*ly}, adv.- {Fate"ful*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fateful
       adj 1: 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: {fatal}]
       2: of ominous significance [syn: {foreboding(a)}, {portentous}]
       3: (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}]
       4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal
          series of events" [syn: {fatal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "fateful":
     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