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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
fateful
1. having momentous consequences;
of decisive importance (Freq. 2)
- "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev
- the fatal day of the election finally arrived
• Syn:
fatal
• Similar to:
decisive
2. ominously prophetic
• Syn:
foreboding, portentous
• Similar to:
prophetic, prophetical
• Derivationally related forms:
portent (for: 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
• Syn:
black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal
• Similar to:
unfortunate
• Derivationally related forms:
disaster (for: disastrous), calamity (for: calamitous)
4. controlled or decreed by fate;
predetermined
- a fatal series of events
• Syn:
fatal
• Similar to:
inevitable
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