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}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0