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fateful

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈfeɪtfəl//

Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.

adjective

  1. 1

    Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.

    It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.

  2. 2

    Determined in advance by fate, fated.

Etymology

From fate + -ful.

Forms

comparative
more fateful
superlative
most fateful
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