fateful
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6.5
- adjective
- /ˈfeɪtfl/
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fatídico
- Now the youth faced him with a gun and had to make a fateful decision.
- a fateful day
- a fateful decision
- make a fateful decision
But he went a step further, a fateful step further.
- But he went a step further, a fateful step further.
- And Rick actually has his first fateful encounter with Mercer.
- And one of the missions was particularly fateful.
- You know, she came into the club six weeks prior to that fateful night.
- Thank God I wasn't personally wounded, but I did witness death and tragedy That fateful day.
- And then he remembered that fateful landing at Omaha Beach, where the Allies fought against the Nazis.
- And on one fateful night he found the Lord Jesus Christ and it take changed his whole life.
- There's a famous, I think he was a Greek philosopher, that there was a prophecy that he would die on this one fateful day.
- And that has had fateful consequences not just for our sense of the true severity and scale of this disaster.
- And then finally, one fateful call, Broker Bobby picks up and I go through my spiel and she says, come see me in the morning.
- In the Renaissance, there is something called the language question, which is fateful for, you know, many of us.
- And we one fateful day, go on a taxi, Tell him I can't because I left you.
- However, that was a fateful decision because it turns out that for the most part, prostate cancer is pretty slow.
Examples
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The events which took place on that fateful evening remain as mysterious as they are shocking.
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That fateful night started like any other, but it changed everything for them.
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But he went a step further, a fateful step further.
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And then he makes a really interesting fateful decision.
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And so he makes this very fateful decision to escape from house arrest.
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Then he made a fateful decision.
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That fateful night started like any other.
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Early that fateful summer, Kennedy speaks of his new vision at the American University in Washington.
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Then one fateful morning tragedy befell the circus.
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Thursday, May 19, the fateful day, "one of the strangest of the war," was scorching hot.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
469
3.6
Very important for the success or result of something
126
3.5
Causing very great harm, suffering, or failure
64
3.9
Causing very serious harm or ruin
46
7.0
Important because it changes what happens next
19
7.4
Having important effects or results
19
6.1
Likely to have very bad luck and end badly
4
8.6
A strong sign that something important or bad will happen
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Etymology
Fateful comes from fate, an old word meaning 'what is spoken' or 'destiny', plus the ending -ful meaning 'full of'. So a fateful decision is one 'full of fate' — it seems decided by destiny and has very important, often bad, results.