| ADJECTIVE | all | fateful, fatal | having momentous consequences |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | fateful, foreboding, portentous | ominously prophetic | |
| all | fateful, black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal | (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences | |
| all | fateful, fatal | controlled or decreed by fate |
| Sounds | fey'tfahl | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev | |
| Synonym | fatal | |
| Broader | decisive | Determining or having the power to determine an outcome |
| Spanish | fatal, fatídico, ineludible, inevitable, irremediable, irrevocable | |
| Catalan | indefugible, ineluctable, ineludible, inevitable, irremeiable, irremissible, irrevocable | |
| Meaning | ominously prophetic. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | foreboding, portentous | |
| Broader | prophetic, prophetical | foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention |
| Spanish | aciago, fatídico | |
| Adverbs | fatefully | in a prophetically fateful manner |
| Meaning | (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "a fateful error" | |
| Synonyms | black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal | |
| Broader | unfortunate | not favored by fortune |
| Spanish | calamitoso, catastrófico, desastrosa, desastroso, desgraciada, funesto, lastimoso, negro, ruinoso | |
| Catalan | calamitós, catastròfic, desastrós, funest, llastimós, negre, ruinós | |
| Meaning | Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | fatal | |
| Broader | inevitable | incapable of being avoided / avoided or prevented |
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