Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fateful"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fateful \Fate"ful\, a. .
Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. ``The
fateful steel.'' --J. Barlow.
2. Significant of fate; ominous.
The fateful cawings of the crow. --Longfellow.
-- {Fate"ful*ly}, adv.- {Fate"ful*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fateful
adj 1: 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" [syn: {fatal}]
2: of ominous significance [syn: {foreboding(a)}, {portentous}]
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" [syn: {black},
{calamitous}, {disastrous}, {fatal}]
4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal
series of events" [syn: {fatal}]
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