Skip to content

fateful

Dictionary definition · fateful

adjective

  1. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance"that fateful meeting of the U.N. when … it declared war on North Korea"
  2. ominously prophetic
  3. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin"the stock market crashed on Black Friday"
  4. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined"a fatal series of events"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).