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Adjective: fateful  feyt-ful
  1. Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance
    "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when … it declared war on North Korea";
    - fatal
     
  2. Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
    "a fateful series of events";
    - fatal
     
  3. Ominously prophetic
    "The fateful sky warned of an approaching storm";
    - foreboding, portentous
     
  4. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
    "a fateful error";
    - black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal

See also: decisive, inevitable, prophetic, prophetical, unfortunate