fatefully
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- adverb
- /ˈfeɪt.fəl.i/
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fatídicamente
- Along the way, the life of Judah Ben-Hur intersects fatefully with that of the Son of God, and the title character finds himself forever changed by the message of the Prince of Peace.
- perhaps fatefully
- so fatefully
Examples
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When she chose to leave her job, she did so fatefully, believing it would change her life forever.
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And so it was, and at this time, under another umbrella, Mr. Robinson was fatefully walking toward their house.
Academic text (2007) -
Communism in all of its versions is fatefully tied to the paradigm of growth.
Academic text (2016) -
She drinks the poison and sends for Cortes, but the conquistador is fatefully delayed.
Academic text (2018) -
Solzhenitsyn believes that the architects of the politics of progress fatefully forgot about the requirements of the soul, and hence the constant need for human self-restraint and self-examination.
Academic text (1998) -
The meeting was fatefully scheduled for the day before the major decision was to be made.
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She opened the letter fatefully, knowing it would bring significant news that would alter her future.
Synonyms
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You cannot avoid it
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In a way that shows something bad or important is about to happen
In a way that shows something bad will happen
Antonyms
How Inevitable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fatefully comes from fate, which means 'destiny' or 'what is meant to happen'. So to do something fatefully is to do it as if it must happen and will have an important result.