fateful

• Décrit un événement ou un moment qui a des conséquences importantes, souvent catastrophiques ou décisives. Peut aussi qualifier ce qui marque un tournant inévitable du destin.

Describes an event or moment that has important, often disastrous, consequences.

1. Having momentous consequencesB2formal

   Describing an event or decision that has extremely important and often decisive results.

   Lourd de conséquences

   • That was a fateful decision that changed the course of history.
   • They met on a fateful night in Paris.
   • The fateful meeting led to the company's merger.

   Synonymesconsequentialcriticalcrucialdecisivehistoricmomentouspivotalportentoussignificant

   Antonymesinconsequentialinsignificantminormomentousnessnegligibletrivialunimportant

2. Ominously propheticC1formal

   Suggesting something bad or important will happen in the future.

   De mauvais augure

   • His fateful words echoed in her mind for years.
   • The fortune teller gave a fateful warning about the journey.
   • The dark clouds seemed fateful, promising a storm.

   Synonymesforebodingominousportentousprophetic

3. Extremely unfortunate or direC1formal

   Describing events that bring ruin, disaster, or very negative outcomes.

   funeste

   • The fateful battle resulted in the loss of many lives.
   • It was a fateful error that cost them the championship.
   • The expedition ended in a fateful shipwreck.

   Synonymescalamitouscatastrophicdeadlydisastrousfatalruinoustragic

   Antonymesauspiciousfortunateluckypropitious

4. Controlled by fateC1formal

   Determined or decreed by destiny or fate, as if unavoidable.

   Régi par le destin

   • They believed their meeting was fateful and meant to be.
   • The hero's fateful journey was written in the stars.
   • In the story, the king's fateful end was predicted long ago.

   Synonymesdestinedfatedforeordainedinescapableinevitablepredestinedpredeterminedunavoidable

   Antonymeschosenfreeoptionalvoluntary