fate·ful /ˈfetfəl/
(a.)命中註定的,與命運有關的,重大的,致命的
Fate·ful a. . Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. “The fateful steel.”
2. Significant of fate; ominous.
The fateful cawings of the crow. --Longfellow.
-- Fate*ful*ly, adv.- Fate*ful*ness, n.
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fateful
adj 1: having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that
fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on
North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the
election finally arrived" [syn: fatal]
2: of ominous significance [syn: foreboding(a), portentous]
3: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on
Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a
disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines,
if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles
Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to
win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black,
calamitous, disastrous, fatal]
4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal
series of events" [syn: fatal]