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fateful

/'feɪtfəl/

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adjective
ominously prophetic
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foreboding portentous prophetic prophetical
adjective
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
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"a fateful error"

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black calamitous disastrous fatal unfortunate
adjective
controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
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fatal inevitable
adjective
having momentous consequences; of decisive importance
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"that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"

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fatal decisive

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"a fateful error"
"that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"