fateful

  • (s) 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
    fatal,
  • (s) ominously prophetic foreboding, portentous,
  • (s) (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
    calamitous, disastrous, fatal, black,
  • (s) controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
    • a fatal series of events
    fatal,

Synonyms

fatal foreboding portentous calamitous disastrous black

Words of close approximity

fatefully