fateful
/ˈfeɪtfəl/ adjective C1- Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate. · It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.
- Determined in advance by fate, fated.
From the library
We all sat in silence for some minutes while those fateful eyes still strained to pierce the veil.
Especially did the Queen’s class gird up their loins for the fray, for at the end of the coming year, dimly shadowing their pathway already, loomed up that fateful thing known as “the Entrance,” at the thought of which one and all felt their hearts sink into their very shoes.
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