Definition of Fateful

Adjective

  • controlled or decreed by fate
    predetermined
    "a fatal series of events"
  • (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"
  • ominously prophetic
  • 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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Unscramble fateful

83 unscramble word found using the letters fateful.
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