fateful
adjective/ˈfeɪtfl/
/ˈfeɪtfl/
[usually before noun]- having an important, often very bad, effect on future events
- She looked back now to that fateful day in December.
- his final fateful journey to Moscow
Oxford Collocations DictionaryFateful is used with these nouns:- day
- decision
- encounter
- …
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