fateful
adjective
1. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance
- that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea
- the fatal day of the election finally arrived
Similar word(s): decisive, fatal
2. ominously prophetic
Similar word(s): prophetic, prophetical, foreboding, portentous
3. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
- such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory
- it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it
- a fateful error
Similar word(s): unfortunate, black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal
4. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
- a fatal series of events
Similar word(s): inevitable, fatal
Sentences with fateful as an adjective:
- It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.