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单词 fateful
释义

fatefuladj.

Brit. /ˈfeɪtf(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˈfeɪtf(ə)l/
Etymology: < fate n. + -ful suffix.
1. Of a voice or utterance: Revealing the decrees of fate; prophetic of destiny.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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