Synonyms for fateful
ˈfeɪt fəlfate·ful

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1. 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, unprophetic

2. fateful, foreboding(a), portentousadjective

   ominously prophetic

   Antonyms:
   evitable, avertable, unprophetic, indecisive, avertible, avoidable, fortunate

3. 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"

   Synonyms:
   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, mordant

   Antonyms:
   indecisive, avoidable, avertible, evitable, unprophetic, fortunate, avertable

4. fatal, 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

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1. fatefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   ominous

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1. List of paraphrases for "fateful":

   fatal, disastrous, make-or-break

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1. New York:

   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.

2. Benny Gantz:

   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.

3. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   This is a fateful struggle, a close struggle. We must close this gap. We can close this gap.

4. Kazushige Todaka:

   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.

5. The Israeli prime minister:

   I’m going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission, i feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people.