adjective
having momentous consequences
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- 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
adjective
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences
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- 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
adjective
controlled or decreed by fate
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- predetermined
- a fatal series of events