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Definition of Fateful
1. Adjective. Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance. "The fatal day of the election finally arrived"
2. Adjective. Ominously prophetic.
3. Adjective. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin. "A fateful error"
Similar to: Unfortunate
Derivative terms: Calamity, Disaster
4. Adjective. Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined. "A fatal series of events"
Definition of Fateful
1. a. . Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate.
Definition of Fateful
1. Adjective. Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate. ¹
2. Adjective. Determined in advance by fate, fated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fateful
1. decisively important [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fateful
Literary usage of Fateful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"1958 fatal, fateful Quite a few writers on usage are at pains to distinguish
between fatal and fatefuL It all began when HW Fowler found a passage in a ..."
2. Pennsylvania, Province and State: A History from 1609 to 1790 by Albert Sidney Bolles (1899)
"He had been very close to the enemy and with no small difficulty got away to
convey this fateful intelligence to Washington. At first he could not believe ..."
3. The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (1911)
"MURPHY GIVES MOTHERLY COM- FORT THE GREAT STORM — HALF A BISCUIT ARRIVAL OF THIRD
BELIEF — '' WHERE IS MY BOY I '' HOW can I describe that fateful cabin, ..."
4. The Rescue of Cuba: An Episode in the Growth of Free Government by Andrew Sloan Draper (1899)
"... A fateful Hour The Waiting Fleet CHAPTER VIII Destruction of ... 1898) 1 was
a fateful hour in the history of the world's contest for freedom. ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... along lines that subsequently became fateful for his order (see JESUITS;
ACCOMMODATION, § 8); the instruction he dispensed in connection with baptism ..."
6. The Bookman (1903)
"He was in Cuba when the struggle for independence was drawing to its fateful close.
He saw the battle of El Caney. ..."
7. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"These weary eyes that look on thee have seen "Hosts of thy kindred die, and
fateful change " Upon thy people and thy city fall. " O, say what dire occasion ..."
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