English to English
adjective
- Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- having momentous consequences; of decisive importance
That fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea.
The fatal day of the election finally arrived.
source: WordNet 3.0
- ominously prophetic
source: WordNet 3.0
- (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.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
A fateful error.
source: WordNet 3.0
- controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
A fatal series of events.
source: WordNet 3.0