Antonyms 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"

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

   Synonyms:
   fatal, disastrous, portentous, calamitous, black, foreboding(a)

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"

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

   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

4. fatal, fatefuladjective

   controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined

   "a fatal series of events"

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

   Synonyms:
   fatal, disastrous, portentous, calamitous, black, foreboding(a)

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1. fatefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   ominous

How to use fateful in a sentence?

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. 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.

3. Councilwoman Marikay Abuzuaiter:

   It was a horrible, horrible day with the tragic loss of life but I do not believe that the City and the Police Department knew of the events that were about to take place on that fateful day.

4. 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.

5. Ben Carson:

   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.

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