单词 | fateful |
释义 | fatefuladj. 1. Of a voice or utterance: Revealing the decrees of fate; prophetic of destiny. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [adjective] witiec897 weirdc1400 propheticalc1450 propheticc1484 vaticinant1490 fatal?1504 spaeing?a1505 vaticinal1587 mantical1588 vatical1594 vatic1603 fatidical1608 vaticinating1634 fatiloquent1656 vaticinian1656 fatidic1671 fateful1720 vaticinatric1729 seer-like1816 mantic1839 fatidicating1867 vaticinatory1883 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > prophecy > [adjective] propheticalc1450 propheticc1484 prophetly1579 fateful1720 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xix. 465 Then ceas'd for ever, by the Furies ty'd, His fate-ful Voice. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Melancholy A mystic tumult and a fateful rhyme. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets i. 39 That fateful Hebrew Prophecy. 1872 H. W. Longfellow Prel. in Three Bks. Song i. 8 The fateful cawings of the crow. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. v. 84 The fateful words, ‘Rise Brother’. 2. Fraught with destiny, bearing with it or involving momentous consequences; decisive, important. Chiefly of a period of time. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > decisive fatalc1386 fateful1800 1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Death Wallenstein iii. viii. 92 A fateful evening doth descend upon us. 1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) ix. 35 The fateful banner of Khaled. 1861 Romance of a Dull Life xiii. 97 Each minute seemed fateful to her. 1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story xii, in Harper's Mag. Nov. 907/1 A fateful conference..was taking place. 3. Marked by the influence of fate; controlled as if by irresistible destiny. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [adjective] > concerned with destiny > destined fatalc1374 portioned1567 weirdy1804 foreshadowed1866 fateful1876 the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [adjective] > having the power to control fate > controlled by fate fated1801 fateful1876 1876 S. A. Brooke Primer Eng. Lit. 130 The Bride of Lammermoor, as great in fateful pathos as Romeo and Juliet. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Feb. 6/2 That fateful inability to review their position. 1891 Times 14 Feb. 7/5 Peasants..begin..their..wanderings from place to place in an aimless, fateful sort of way. 1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 229 As fateful as a Greek tragedy. 4. Bringing fate or death; deadly; = fatal adj. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > cause of death > [adjective] deadlyc893 deathlyOE deathfula1250 mortalc1390 capitalc1426 exitialc1475 fey1488 mortuala1500 perishinga1500 fatal?1518 ferial1528 mortiferousa1538 deadc1540 exitious?1545 deathlike1548 mortifying1555 starvingc1600 lethal1604 speedingc1604 vital1612 irrecoverable1614 feral1621 lethiferous1651 mortific1651 mortifical1657 daggering1694 exitiose1727 fateful1764 kill-devil1831 unsurvivable1839 lethiferal1848 tachythanatous1860 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iv. 134 Nor fateful only is the bursting flame. 1798 Anti-Jacobin 26 Feb. 126/2 Resounds the fateful dart. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iv. 149 The soldier's fateful steel. 5. Having a remarkable fate; of eventful history. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adjective] > eventful eventfula1616 great-bellied1647 crowded1791 venturous1813 eventive1843 chanceful1849 fateful1886 incidented1898 1886 G. T. Stokes Ireland & Celtic Church (1888) 108 (note) This fateful book is said to be still in existence. Derivatives ˈfatefully adv. in a fateful manner. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [adverb] > as decreed by fate fatally1574 fatefully1863 1863 S. Hibberd in Intellectual Observer III. 439 If she [the bee] is so fatefully mechanical as to build and furnish a cell without knowledge of what it is. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. iii. 533 Those fatefully questionable months. ˈfatefulness n. the quality of being fateful. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [noun] > destiny or fate > quality of being fateful fatefulness1882 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Dec. 3 Assigning much mock fatefulness to Sir Crimson Fluid. 1886 Athenæum 20 Feb. 274 A whimsical air of fatefulness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1720 |
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