fateful English

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fateful

— adjective (= fatal) 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

— adjective ominously prophetic

— adjective (= fatal) controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined a fatal series of events

— adjective (= black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal) (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

Synonyms fateful synonyms

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fatal

disastrous

prophetic

ill-fated

decisive

deadly

calamitous

prophetical

portentous

oracular

foreboding

fated

doomed

black

world-shaking

unlucky

transcendental

transcendent

sinister

ruinous

prognostic

prescient

predestined

predestinated

pernicious

ominous

mortal

moliminous

marked

major

internecine

inevitable

important

ill-omened

grievous

full-bodied

fatidic

destructive

destined

decisively important

critical

blasting

be important

baneful

annihilating

adumbrative

Examples fateful examples

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Movie subtitles

The fateful hour.

It lies with me now to tell for the first time what took place between Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarity in that fateful year.

Our souls impatient for their hour, While yoked beneath a fateful power Our country calls to us, heart-stricken.

A great and fateful day.

The irony of Tajomaru being thrown off his stolen horse, this had to be fateful retribution.

A fateful event rang out in the history of art!

And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that fateful day.

I trust that our fatherland can count on you in this fateful hour.

One fateful day.

Not in death, but just in sleep. the fateful prophecy you'll keep.

He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword.

I wouldn't lack siblings if that.. fateful day didn't come.

The wonderful, fateful, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious tuppence.

How fortunate that their admirable attorneys. were not present at the Clutter home that fateful evening.

Three days later, on July 20. while Rommel still lay unconscious in a hospital in France. Adolf Hitler and his staff gathered for their fateful conference. in a fortified barracks at his headquarters in East Prussia.

Simultaneously with the Shark's departure. and with his crew still in the dark concerning their secret, fateful mission. Skipper Wendover made the first notation in the log.

Not in death, but just in sleep. this fateful prophecy you'll keep. and from this slumber you shall wake. when true love's kiss the spell shall break.

In this timeless struggle for supremacy between Man and Woman, Man had held his own until that fateful day in 1492 when Christopher Columbus discovered America.

Most fateful disaster.

There's the tuppence. The wonderful, fateful, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious tuppence.

Michael Sullivan, an ex-convict and one of the leaders of the break describes that fateful day.

And on that fateful night, Ted Striker saved that plane.

Oh God, what a fateful star I was born under, if I have made even you, an innocent boy, a murderer?

Someone that they would recognize when they opened the door that fateful night.

And yet. he treats me more and more strangely. as what he calls the fateful date approaches.

The fateful date?

Her beautl'ful rivers still flow just as they did that fateful day.

Her beautiful sky is just as big as It was that fateful day.

I don't believe in chance or fateful encounters.

When they met again what a fateful encounter it was.

Father dear, the day now nears For you to make the fateful trip.

With the fleetly passing months, Comes this fateful parting day.

And now, for the first time,.we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that fateful day.

But of this fateful cohabitation and its consequences, I'll speak more later.

His hesitant and uncertain steps led him along the fateful path to his home, where all seemed normal, tranquil and peaceful.

The wonderful, fateful, supercalifragilistic-expialidocious tuppence.

News and current affairs

I recall that fateful Saturday afternoon with utter clarity, strolling through Kiev with my six-year-old daughter, oblivious to the danger.

Europe's leaders are now contemplating what to do, and their next move will have fateful consequences, either calming the markets or driving them to new extremes.

Were Islamic values as fateful as Huntington suggests, there should have been sharp differences in inequality and the treatment of women between these communities.

Twenty years ago - on June 4, 1989 - three events shaped a fateful year.

Recall how the fateful decision to situate the IMF in Washington, DC enhanced the influence of the US Treasury just down the street.

Brown has longed to be prime minister ever since May 12, 1994, the fateful day when John Smith, the Labour Party's leader in opposition, dropped dead of a heart attack.

Indeed, this year could be Russia's most fateful yet.

The event will be the first time that world leaders have met to discuss global warming since the UN's fateful Copenhagen climate-change summit in 2009.

The tougher challenge is to solve the Gordian knot that binds Hezbollah (and the issue of its disarmament), Syria, and Israel together in a fateful triangle.

First, international pressure, led by the US, China, Russia, and Japan was not enough to prevent North Korea from taking this fateful step.

NEW YORK: Fateful events in Israel and Yugoslavia have obscured ongoing turmoil in Nigeria and Indonesia.

It is six years since the IMF's fateful meeting in Hong Kong, just before the global financial crisis.

The most fateful attack to accompany the installation of any dictatorship is an attack on civil society.

As in ancient Greek tragedies, misconceptions and a sheer lack of understanding have had unintended but fateful consequences.

A quiz for history buffs. Twenty years ago - on June 4, 1989 - three events shaped a fateful year.

So the most fateful attack that accompanied the installation of Communist power everywhere was an attack on civil society.

Or is it the artificial status quo itself that has caused organized violence to explode with fateful regularity?

This time, it was a simple, but fateful, programming misstep that suddenly left millions of consumers' most sensitive information vulnerable to hackers.

And now it is engaged in a fateful struggle to secure the very existence and viability of the European Union.

The fateful question is whether Ukraine, under the enormous pressure of military aggression by a much larger and stronger neighbor, can successfully become more European.

This was a fateful decision for both Germany and Europe.

Obama committed a fateful error when, for domestic political reasons, he decided to ask the US Congress to agree to a limited punitive military strike.