Synonyms for fateful
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Pivotal — momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate
pivotal, decisive, crucial, grave, important, consequential, critical, significant, earnest, heavy, necessary, weighty, momentous
2. Fated — determined in advance by fate, fated
fated, destined, preordained, predestined, foreordained, doomed dated, weird dated, predevote formal dated
3. Ominous
ominous, portentous, foreboding, ill-fated, inauspicious, sinister, dire, baleful, ill-starred, ill-omened
4. Fatal
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.
- adj. 2
Determined in advance by fate, fated.
Example sentences
- crucial Past papers are crucial for good exam preparation.
- decisive The situation called for quick, decisive action.
- pivotal Tom played a pivotal role in the company's growth.
- consequential Tom wanted to do something consequential for once.
- destined I always knew that Tom was destined for greatness.
- fated Yanni lost his life in his ill-fated attempt to kill Skura.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| fateful | rising | |
| crucial | rising | |
| decisive | steady | |
| pivotal | rising | |
| consequential | steady | |
| destined | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- dire1
- 5 letters
- black1, heavy2, weird1, grave1, fatal2, fated2
- 6 letters
- doomed1
- 7 letters
- crucial2, earnest2, pivotal3, ominous3, weighty2, baleful2
- 8 letters
- critical3, decisive3, destined2, sinister3
- 9 letters
- important3, necessary4, momentous3, predevote
- 10 letters
- inevitable5, disastrous3, foreboding3, calamitous4, portentous3
- 11 letters
- significant4, unfortunate4, predestined3, preordained3
- 12 letters
- inauspicious4, foreordained
- 13 letters
- consequential4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (heavy2 = 2 syllables).