Langtolang Multilingual Dictionary

ADJECTIVE 4

1. bringing death

2. 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”
   Synonymsfateful

3. (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”
   Synonymsblackcalamitousdisastrousfateful

4. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined

   • “a fatal series of events”
   Synonymsfateful