Meaning

2 senses
  1. Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.

    It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.

    schicksalhaft, verhängnisvoll

    роково́йrokovój, судьбоно́сныйsudʹbonósnyj

    долено́снийdolenósnyj

  2. Determined in advance by fate, fated.

    vorbestimmt

More definitions
  • having momentous consequences; of decisive importance
  • ominously prophetic
  • controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
  • (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Do not count on fateful opportunities.

  2. I wish I had never taken that fateful boat ride.

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  3. Yanni made a fateful decision.

  4. In what would prove to be a fateful decision, he and his wife enjoyed brunch at a fancy resort.

  5. Jack was able to establish that Tom never left his home on that fateful night, and therefore, he was innocent.

    ruДжек сумел установить, что в ту роковую ночь Том не выходил из своего дома, а следовательно, он невиновен. — ZegPhig

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate:
Русский
By meaning 1
momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate:
determined in advance by fate, fated:

Origin

From fate + -ful.

From fate + -ful.

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Forms

more fateful, most fateful
Comparativemore fateful Lesson
Superlativemost fateful Lesson

regular

Synonyms

50 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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