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How to pronounce fateful in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms foreboding, portentous
Type Words
Synonyms black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal


a fateful error.
Type Words
Synonyms fatal
Type Words
Synonyms fatal


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

Examples of fateful

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That year was the fateful year in which Brown v. Board of Education was decided.
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He had six points, six rebounds and three blocks during that fateful first half.
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The first turkey I pulled out of the pen that fateful day ran right back inside.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Think on Monday when the fateful new moon brings fateful insights into the fray.
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After 14 episodes, we're finally catching up to that fateful night on the beach.
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The quest for secure oil supplies has wreaked fateful alliances and consequences.
From the guardian.co.uk
Selling a boat one has spent happy decades on is, in a way, a fateful decision.
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For years, Mr. Frazier refrained from talking about his role that fateful Friday.
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Whatever his actions on that fateful day in New Guinea, Stamm said he is no hero.
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More examples
  • 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"
  • Ominously prophetic
  • Black: (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; " ...
  • Fatal: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
  • (fatefully) in a prophetically fateful manner; "the nurse whispered fatefully to call the priest"
  • Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate; Determined in advance by fate, fated