Definitions for fateful

fateful fate·ful

Spelling: [feyt-fuh l]
IPA: /ˈfeɪt fəl/

Fateful is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in fateful (aeffltu).

Definitions for fateful

adjective

  1. having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important; portentous:
  2. fatal, deadly, or disastrous.
  3. controlled or determined by destiny; inexorable.
  4. prophetic; ominous.

Origin of fateful

First recorded in 1705-15; fate + -ful

Examples for fateful

A few days after this fateful visit, each visionary reported seeing images of rivers of blood and headless corpses.

On this fateful day, she alone was oppressed with strange forebodings.

In the wake of that fateful 2008 evening, Cotillard has worked for, and alongside, some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

On that fateful Friday, July 13th, Sanders joined Democratic staff investigator Scott Armstrong in questioning Butterfield.

The fateful day had come and gone, yet London stood where it did before.

Lindsay Lohan was also spotted at the restaurant that fateful night.

The continued shocks since that fateful night of the cards had told upon me.

The Malaysian crew said they could not comply—the report gives no reason for what was very likely a fateful decision.

The three weeks prior to the fateful fourteenth had been crowded with activities.

The fateful exodus of the day had evidently slipped his memory entirely.

Word Value for fateful
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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