fateful

Adjective Satellite

• having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; - Saturday Rev
  • "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"
• ominously prophetic
• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; ; ; ; - Charles Darwin; - Douglas MacArthur
  • "a fateful error"
• controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined

Adj

• Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
• Determined in advance by fate, fated.

Adjective

• Having significant consequences; critically important.

Examples

• His FATEFUL decision to open up a triple-word square cost him the game.
• It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.

Synonyms

black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, foreboding, portentous, big, central, consequential, critical, crucial, destined, doomed, epochful, essential, extraordinary, fated, fatefraught, fateful, fatesome, fatidic, foreordained, heavy, high on the totem pole, historic, innegligible, key, life-or-death, meaningful, necessary, noted, noticeable, observable, outstanding, paramount, pertinent, predestined, predevote, preordained, relevant, remarkable, salient, significant, unignorable, valuable, vital, weighty, weird

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