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Synonyms 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"
Synonyms:
fatal, disastrous, portentous, calamitous, black, foreboding(a)Antonyms:
fortunate, avertable, avertible, avoidable, indecisive, evitable, unpropheticfateful, foreboding(a), portentousadjective
ominously prophetic
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evitable, avertable, unprophetic, indecisive, avertible, avoidable, fortunateblack, 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"
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pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, portentous, grim, calamitous, blackened, black, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, foreboding(a), smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordantAntonyms:
indecisive, avoidable, avertible, evitable, unprophetic, fortunate, avertablefatal, fatefuladjective
controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
"a fatal series of events"
Synonyms:
fatal, disastrous, portentous, calamitous, black, foreboding(a)Antonyms:
avertable, evitable, fortunate, avoidable, unprophetic, indecisive, avertible
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
fatefuladjective
Synonyms:
ominous
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#271 | black | |
#1640 | dark | |
#8192 | fatal | |
#9389 | dim | |
#14856 | grim | |
#19559 | sinister | |
#22839 | disastrous | |
#25029 | bleak | |
#25042 | bootleg | |
#29867 | shameful | |
#34766 | blackened | |
#41643 | contraband | |
#42259 | fateful | |
#45257 | disgraceful | |
#45349 | smuggled | |
#117416 | mordant | |
#121753 | ignominious | |
#127931 | calamitous | |
#129078 | portentous | |
#140999 | smutty | |
#157749 | inglorious | |
#285694 | opprobrious |
How to use fateful in a sentence?
Without anywhere, anytime surprise inspections, a full accounting of Iran's past secret nuclear arms pursuits, elimination of Iran's uranium stockpiles and the lifting of any sanctions only upon verification of Iranian compliance (means) this is not a good deal, but a recipe for disaster and the first fateful step toward a frenzied nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
I respect the White House and the President of the United States, but on such a fateful matter, that can determine whether or not we survive, I must do everything to prevent such a great danger for Israel.
This is a fateful struggle, a close struggle, we must close the gap, it is possible to close this gap.
We think that he did not die on that road that fateful night, we think that there was other reasons and other causes that caused his death.
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.
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