fateful
/ˈfeɪtfəl/
fateful adjective: momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
Adjective
fateful (comparative more fateful, superlative most fateful)
- Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
- It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.
- Synonyms:
- consequential, necessary, big, central, critical, crucial, epochful, essential, extraordinary, fatefraught
- Determined in advance by fate, fated.
- Synonyms:
- foreordained, predestined, bashert, destined, doomed, fated, fatidic, predevote, preordained, weird
fateful meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
fateful in Tamil
- ஊழ் செறிந்த, விதிவசமான, கேடு குறித்த, பெரு நிகழ்ச்சிக்குரிய, காலப்போக்கை மாற்றியமைக்கத்தக்க, முக்கியன்ன
fateful in Urdu
- فیصلہ کن, نتیجہ خیز, تاریخ کا اہم موڑ
fateful in Bengali
- অত্যন্ত গুরুত্বপূর্ণ, তাৎপর্যপূর্ণ, ভাগ্য দ্বারা পূর্বনির্ধারিত, দিষ্ট
fateful in Malayalam
- ദൈവനിയുക്തമായ, ദൗർഭാഗ്യമായ, മുൻകൂട്ടി പറയുന്ന, വിധിയാൽ വിധിക്കപ്പെട്ട, നിയതമായ
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- fateful in Arabic
- حَاسِم ḥāsim, مَصِيرِيّ maṣīriyy
Examples of fateful in a sentence
- Eventually, you make it to the fateful question and ask her what year she is.
- But for some unknown reason Austin had, until this fateful trip, been blind to Andrea's unbridled bimboism.
- Horrible, the fateful figure, steadying itself against Old Winter, who was having the first real look in.
Synonyms of fateful
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- pivotal
- high on the totem pole
- historic
- innegligible
- key
- life-or-death
- meaningful
- noted
- noticeable
- observable
- outstanding
- paramount
- pertinent
- relevant
- remarkable
- salient
- significant
- unignorable
- valuable
- vital
- weighty
- foreordained
- predestined
- bashert
- destined
- fated
- preordained
- fatefraught
- fatesome
- doomed
Forms of fateful
| comparative | more fateful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most fateful |
Origin of fateful
From fate + -ful.
Words formed from fateful
Words that rhyme with fateful
Questions about fateful
- What does fateful mean?
- Fateful means momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
- What is fateful in Tamil?
- Fateful in Tamil is ஊழ் செறிந்த, விதிவசமான, கேடு குறித்த. See Fateful meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fateful?
- Fateful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce fateful?
- Fateful is pronounced /ˈfeɪtfəl/.
Words near fateful in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fateful (page history and authors); fateful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fateful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fateful (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fateful (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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