What does fateful mean?
Definitions for fateful
ˈfeɪt fəlfate·ful
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Princeton's WordNet
fateful, fataladjective
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"
fateful, foreboding(a), portentousadjective
ominously prophetic
black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fatefuladjective
(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"
fatal, fatefuladjective
controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
"a fatal series of events"
Wiktionary
fatefuladjective
Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.
It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.
fatefuladjective
Determined in advance by fate, fated.
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fateful
Fateful is an adjective that describes something which has a significant, often negative or disastrous, impact or influence on future events. It suggests that something is determined by fate or is decisive for the course of future events and developments.
Webster Dictionary
Fateful
having the power of serving or accomplishing fate
Fateful
significant of fate; ominous
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fateful in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fateful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of fateful in a Sentence
It's a wonderful discovery, if it's true, as we have long been looking for the battleship, it's fateful that the discovery was made on the 70th anniversary of (the end of) World War 2. The memory of the war has been fading away after 70 years and the survivors of the war are disappearing. It is very meaningful discovery and a good chance for us to remind ourselves the war and its tragedy.
She doesn't look evil but her actions created evil. She has to answer for what she’s done, she has to pay for the consequences of those fateful words, those evil actions that caused a police officer’s family and the public. She knows she did it because she confessed to it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
This is a fateful struggle, a close struggle. We must close this gap. We can close this gap.
These are fateful times both for Israel's borders and character, as well as its democratic fabric, the peace plan devised by President Trump will go down in history as a meaningful landmark mapping the way for the different players in the Middle East to finally move forward towards an historical and regional agreement.
We had a fateful fight at Soho House in New York in 2004 and we were shouting at each other because he wouldn’t let me see the footage and he told me that was what they had all decided.
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