Adjective
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controlled or decreed by fate
predetermined
"a fatal series of events"
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(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"
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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"
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bringing death