"fateful" in the adjective sense

1. fateful, fatal

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"

2. fateful, foreboding, portentous

ominously prophetic

3. black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful

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"

4. fatal, fateful

controlled or decreed by fate predetermined

"a fatal series of events"

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