[てんかわけめ, tenkawakeme] (n) fateful; decisive (war) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fateful \Fate"ful\, a. .
Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. "The
fateful steel." --J. Barlow.
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2. Significant of fate; ominous.
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The fateful cawings of the crow. --Longfellow.
-- {Fate"ful*ly}, adv.- {Fate"ful*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fateful
adj 1: having momentous consequences; 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" [syn: {fateful}, {fatal}]
2: ominously prophetic [syn: {fateful}, {foreboding(a)},
{portentous}]
3: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
consequences; 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" [syn: {black},
{calamitous}, {disastrous}, {fatal}, {fateful}]
4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series
of events" [syn: {fatal}, {fateful}]
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