Fateful - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈfeɪtfl|  American pronunciation of the word fateful
Brit.  |ˈfeɪtfʊl|  British pronunciation of the word fateful

adjective

- having momentous consequences; of decisive importance (syn: fatal)
that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea
- ominously prophetic (syn: foreboding, portentous)
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin (syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal)
a fateful error
- controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined (syn: fatal)

Extra examples

His life changed on that fateful November evening.

Hundreds perished on that fateful day.

Her campaign took a fateful turn.

The goalkeeper on that fateful day in 1954 was Fred Martin.

When his rent was raised, he made the fateful decision to move north.

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