What does fateful mean?
Fateful means Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate..
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/ˈfeɪtfəl/ · adjective
Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate..
It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.
Use fateful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fateful means Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate..
Common synonyms include consequential, necessary, big, central.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.
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