Meanings
comparative more fateful · superlative most fateful
- Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.
Synonyms: consequential, necessary, big, central, consequential, critical, crucial, epochful
- Determined in advance by fate, fated.
Synonyms: foreordained, predestined, bashert, destined, doomed, fated, fatidic, foreordained
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveMomentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
adjectiveDetermined in advance by fate, fated.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveominously prophetic
adjective(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
adjectivecontrolled or decreed by fate; predetermined
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic حَاسِم, مَصِيرِيّ
- حَاسِم (ḥāsim)momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
- مَصِيرِيّ (maṣīriyy)momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
Bulgarian съдбоносен, съдбовен
- съдбоносен (sădbonosen)momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
- съдбовен (sădboven)momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
- предопределен (predopredelen)determined in advance by fate, fated
- неизбежен (neizbežen)determined in advance by fate, fated
Czech osudný, osudový
- osudnýmomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
- osudovýmomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
Danish skæbnesvanger
- skæbnesvangermomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
Dutch noodlottig
- noodlottigmomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
Finnish kohtalokas
- kohtalokasmomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
French décisif, fatidique
- décisifmomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
- fatidiquedetermined in advance by fate, fated
German schicksalhaft, verhängnisvoll
- schicksalhaftmomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
- verhängnisvollmomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
- vorbestimmtdetermined in advance by fate, fated
Italian fatidico
- fatidicomomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
Latin fatidicus, fatidicus
- fatidicusmomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
- fatidicusdetermined in advance by fate, fated
Māori aituā
- aituāmomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
Polish doniosły, nieuchronny
- doniosłymomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
- nieuchronnymomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
- rozstrzygającymomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
Portuguese fatídico
- fatídicomomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
Russian роково́й, судьбоно́сный
- роково́й (rokovój)momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
- судьбоно́сный (sudʹbonósnyj)momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
Spanish funesto
- funestomomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
Swedish ödesdiger, ödesbestämd
- ödesdigermomentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
- ödesbestämddetermined in advance by fate, fated
- förutbestämddetermined in advance by fate, fated
Ukrainian долено́сний
- долено́сний (dolenósnyj)momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with fateful
All rhymes →Cite this entry
fateful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fateful
“fateful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fateful. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fateful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fateful.
Source: fateful on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.