fateful

Adjective
  1. Having momentous consequences;
    Of decisive importance (synset 300688390)
    "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
    similar to: decisive - determining or having the power to determine an outcome
    same as: fatal
  2. Ominously prophetic (synset 301889205)
    similar to: prophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
    same as: foreboding, portentous
  3. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences;
    Bringing ruin (synset 301053787)
    "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"; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"; "a fateful error"
    similar to: unfortunate - not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune
    same as: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal
  4. Controlled or decreed by fate;
    Predetermined (synset 300344124)
    "a fatal series of events"
    similar to: inevitable - incapable of being avoided or prevented
    same as: fatal

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