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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

a predestined or prophetic event or catastrophe;

e.g. When they decided to travel north was the fateful day the tides of war were turned against them.

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Similar Words

Apical

Calamitous

Cataclysmic

Damning

Destructive

Disastrous

Epochal

Fatal

Ghostly

Go-no-go

Make-or-break

Meridian

Precarious

Ruinous

Seminal

Spectral

Strategic

Ultrahazardous

Unfortunate

Watershed

Worthwhile

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Opposite Words

Anticlimactic

Auspicious

Encouraging

Fair

Fiddling

Fluky

Foolish

Fortuitous

Fortunate

Frivolous

Fry

Golden

Happy

Here

Hopeful

Incidental

Inconsequential

Inconsiderable

Insignificant

Least

Little

Lucky

Minor

Negligible

Neither

Nickel-and-dime

Nor

Nugatory

One-horse

Optimistic

Promising

Propitious

Providential

Rose-colored

Rosy

Slight

Small

Small-fry

Small-time

There

Trifling

Trivial

Unimportant

Upbeat

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Related Words

Adverse

Apocalyptic

Baleful

Baneful

Big

Climacteric

Climactic

Consequential

Damaging

Dangerous

Dead

Deadly

Deathly

Deleterious

Detrimental

Earth-shattering

Earthshaking

Eventful

Evil

Grave

Grievous

Hapless

Harmful

Hazardous

Historic

Hurtful

Ill

Ill-fated

Ill-starred

Important

Injurious

Major

Material

Meaningful

Menacing

Momentous

Monumental

Mortal

Much

Noxious

Parlous

Perilous

Pernicious

Prejudicial

Risky

Serious

Significant

Substantial

Tectonic

Threatening

Unhealthy

Unsafe

Venturesome

Weighty

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