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: fateful, fatal]
    2: ominously prophetic [syn: fateful, 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, fateful]
    4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series
       of events" [syn: fatal, fateful]

Fateful \Fate"ful\, a. .
   Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. "The
   fateful steel." --J. Barlow.
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   2. Significant of fate; ominous.
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            The fateful cawings of the crow.      --Longfellow.
      -- Fate"ful*ly, adv.- Fate"ful*ness, n.
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