FATEFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fateful mean? 

• FATEFUL (adjective)
  The adjective FATEFUL has 4 senses:

1. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance

2. ominously prophetic

3. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

4. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined

  Familiarity information: FATEFUL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FATEFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance

Synonyms:

fatal; fateful

Context example:

the fatal day of the election finally arrived

Similar:

decisive (determining or having the power to determine an outcome)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ominously prophetic

Synonyms:

fateful; foreboding; portentous

Similar:

prophetic; prophetical (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

Synonyms:

black; calamitous; disastrous; fatal; fateful

Context example:

a fateful error

Similar:

unfortunate (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined

Synonyms:

fatal; fateful

Context example:

a fatal series of events

Similar:

inevitable (incapable of being avoided or prevented)

 Context examples 

Ancient astrologers wrote that if you were single, your Emerald Year (2021) would be your best for encountering a fateful meeting of your one truelove.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On they rode, and on, until, at last, topping a ridge, they looked down upon the fateful valley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He glided up the gallery and up the stairs, and stopped in the dark, low corridor of the fateful third storey: I had followed and stood at his side.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a fateful day for the Yeehats.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Here, Madam Mina's hypnotic power will surely help, and we shall find our way—all dark and unknown otherwise—after the first sunrise when we are near that fateful place.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The spacecraft's fateful dive is the final beat in the mission's Grand Finale, 22 weekly dives, which began in late April, through the gap between Saturn and its rings.

(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)

A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close today, as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet.

(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)

If you are single, you might have a fateful meeting over this weekend, February 8-9, with someone you will want to keep in your life a long time, for love will follow.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

For single Virgos, January 23 could be outstanding for Jupiter will work closely with Venus to help you have a fateful first meeting.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This moon will light your fifth house of romance and encourage a fateful first meeting.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)