Textual thesaurus for "fateful"

(adj) fatal

controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined

a fatal series of events

(adj) 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

(adj) black, calamitous, fatal, disastrous

(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

(adj) foreboding, portentous

ominously prophetic