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英英字典: fateful


KK Pronunciation

〔 ˋfetfәl 〕

Pronunciation

〔 ˊfeitful 〕


Overview of adj fateful

The adj fateful has 4 senses


  • fateful, fatal -- (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")

  • fateful, foreboding, portentous -- (ominously prophetic)

  • black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful -- ((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")

  • fatal, fateful -- (controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events")

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