Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fateful
IPA transcription: [f'eɪtfəl]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fateful, fatal
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • Every day of the fateful August, 1914, was crowded with momentous events.
  • Now one phantom, one terror at least was at an end: that first, rightful lover, that fateful figure had vanished, leaving no trace.
  • After lunch, for example, he spends an hour alone, and in this period of meditation the whole fateful panorama of the war passes before him.
  • Nora was a blue-eyed, black-haired Irish girl, the sixth that the despairing Billy had interviewed on that fateful morning when Bertram had summoned her to his aid.
  • Uncle William, it might be mentioned in passing, had never quite forgotten Aunt Hannah's fateful call with its dire revelations concerning a certain unwanted, superfluous, third-party husband's brother.
  • Into this I was hustled and locked, whereupon the cage rose swiftly again to a hole in the bottom of the hull, into which it fitted snugly, and I stepped into the interior of a craft not unlike the one with which I had had my fateful encounter, the cage being unlocked.