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fateful 音标拼音: [f'etfəl] a. 命中注定的,与命运有关的,重大的,致命的 命中注定的,与命运有关的,重大的,致命的 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" [ synonym: { fateful}, { fatal}] 2: ominously prophetic [ synonym: { fateful}, { 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" [ synonym: { black}, { calamitous}, { disastrous}, { fatal}, { fateful}] 4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; " a fatal series of events" [ synonym: { fatal}, { fateful}] Fateful \ Fate" ful\, a. . Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. " The fateful steel." -- J. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Significant of fate; ominous. [ 1913 Webster] The fateful cawings of the crow. -- Longfellow. -- { Fate" ful* ly}, adv.- { Fate" ful* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 126 Moby Thesaurus words for " fateful": acute, apocalyptic, appointed, awe- inspiring, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, certain, conclusive, consequential, consuming, consumptive, critical, crucial, dark, deadly, decisive, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destined, destroying, destructive, determinative, devastating, devoted, dire, direful, disastrous, doomed, doomful, dreary, earnest, evil, evil- starred, fatal, fated, foreboding, foredoomed, formidable, fratricidal, gloomy, grave, heavy, ill, ill- boding, ill- fated, ill- omened, ill- starred, important, imposing, in store, in the cards, inauspicious, indefeasible, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, inflexible, internecine, irresistible, irrevocable, lethal, lowering, major, marked, menacing, momentous, necessary, nihilist, nihilistic, of evil portent, ominous, ordained, pivotal, portending, portentous, ravaging, relentless, resistless, ruining, ruinous, self- destructive, serious, significant, sinister, sober, solemn, somber, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, threatening, unavoidable, uncontrollable, undeflectable, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpreventable, unpromising, unpropitious, unstoppable, untoward, unyielding, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, weighty, withering, written
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