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fatefraught

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momentous significant big central consequential critical crucial epochful

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Meanings

adjectivefatefraught (comparative more fatefraught, superlative most fatefraught)

comparative more fatefraught · superlative most fatefraught · alternative fate-fraught

archaicrarefateful
[…] good's faithful war fatefraught 'gainst ill […]
1901 [1839], Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem, London: George Routledge & Sons, page 9
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[…] one of the most stirring and fatefraught periods of German history.
1911 [1814], Henry Wilson (notes, appendices, and index), “Appendix: Brief Account of Prose Fiction in Germany”, in John Colin Dunlop, History of Prose Fiction, volume II, London: G. Bell and Sons, page 589
Synonyms: momentous, significant, big, central, consequential, critical, crucial, epochful

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivefateful

Similar

momentous significant big central consequential critical crucial epochful essential extraordinary fateful fatesome heavy pivotal high on the totem pole historic innegligible key life-or-death

Also see

big crucial earnest essential fateful fatesome grave important noticeable ominous paramount top of mind vital

Origin

* fate + fraught

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APA

fatefraught. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatefraught

MLA

“fatefraught.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatefraught. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fatefraught,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatefraught.

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