fateful
英英释意
- 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"
- 2. of ominous significance
- 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"
- 4. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined;
- "a fatal series of events"