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FATEFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
Example:
a fatal series of events
Synonyms:
fatal; fateful
Classified under:
Similar:
inevitable (incapable of being avoided or prevented)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance
Example:
the fatal day of the election finally arrived
Synonyms:
fatal; fateful
Classified under:
Similar:
decisive (determining or having the power to determine an outcome)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
Example:
a fateful error
Synonyms:
black; calamitous; disastrous; fatal; fateful
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unfortunate (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Ominously prophetic
Synonyms:
fateful; foreboding; portentous
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
prophetic; prophetical (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention)
Context examples:
Your best day to make a fateful decision about your home or family/parental situation will be March 20, when action Mars and good-fortune Jupiter will conjoin in Capricorn, a rare aspect in which these two planets will meet in your fourth sector of home and family and won’t do so again for 36 years.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
