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US
/ˈfeɪtfəɫ/
]
[ UK /fˈeɪtfəl/ ]
[ UK /fˈeɪtfəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
a fatal series of events -
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
a calamitous defeat
a fateful error
such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory
the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign
the stock market crashed on Black Friday
it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it -
having momentous consequences; of decisive importance
the fatal day of the election finally arrived
that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea - ominously prophetic
How To Use fateful In A Sentence
- Looking like film noir stills, these photographs were nighttime shots of the actual sites where the fateful encounters between police and civilians occurred.
- Perhaps if my unit had been able to capture that bomber on that fateful night, Dr. Appelbaum would have walked his daughter to the chuppa.
- So now we come to the fateful month of July 1944, when the waters were rising along the whole periphery of the Nazi empire, where everywhere, in Speidel's words, "... the floodgates are creaking," to the day, the 20th, of the attentat; a climacteric in the history of the Third Reich of Hitler's relations with the Army, and of the rational direction of the German war effort. Barbarossa
- Everything changed, however, with the discovery of radioactivity at the end of the nineteenth century - a discovery that led to one of the most remarkable, fruitful, and fateful eras in the history of chemistry.
- The fateful words do not establish a trust in favour of him, but instead a trust at his expense in favour of another person.
- Two decades ago she was a highly driven academic - until the fateful morning when she got out of bed feeling not quite herself.
- It's a fateful symbiosis in a downward spiral of political aspiration.
- It was the fateful divorce between the sacred and the secular.
- And the key to this drastic and fateful change in the history of western philosophy from a consideration of the being of things (Sein des Seienden) to a consideration of the "thingliness" of things (Seiendheit des Seienden) is, at least in the case of Plato, to be found in the second meaning of being which Heidegger found among the Greeks, the aspect of being as appearance. Enowning
- She spoke with us about fateful encounters and the knowledge she has gleaned.