fateful
/ˈfeɪtfʊl
/ /ˈfeɪtf(ə)l/adjective
Having far-reaching and often disastrous consequences or implications: a fateful oversight...
- On that fateful night a disastrous landslide wrecked havoc on their scenic community.
- For many, this was the horrifying, almost fateful consequence of the life he had led.
- This was the one time she misused her powers, and it proved to have fateful consequences.
Synonyms
decisive, determining, critical, crucial, pivotal;
momentous, important, of great importance, all-important, key, significant, far-reaching;
historic, weighty, consequential, of great consequence, epoch-making, portentous, apocalyptic
informal earth-shattering, world-shattering, earth-shaking, world-shaking
disastrous, ruinous, calamitous, cataclysmic, devastating, destructive, tragic, awful, terrible, harmful, fatal, deadly
Derivatives
fatefully
- Instead of favoring his father-in-law, he fatefully stated that his ultimate allegiance was with the nation and its people.
- He was simply - perhaps fatefully - less presidential than his opponent.
- The story builds fatefully towards the final dinner party of the weekend.
fatefulness
- Nowadays it is the refugee to whom we attribute the qualities of fatefulness, tragedy, and loss.
- All through the movie the original music creates an almost subliminal feeling-the unconscious texture of sadness and melancholy, the mood of fatefulness.
- One of the key principles of their religion was that there is much to be learned about divine fatefulness in the reading of the sky.