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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 fate·ful /ˈfetfəl/
 (a.)命中註定的,與命運有關的,重大的,致命的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fate·ful a. . Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. “The fateful steel.”
 2.  Significant of fate; ominous.
    The fateful cawings of the crow.   --Longfellow.
 -- Fate*ful*ly, adv.- Fate*ful*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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: fatal]
      2: of ominous significance [syn: 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]
      4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal
         series of events" [syn: fatal]