Definition: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
Usage: a fatal series of events
Similar words: inevitable
Definition: incapable of being avoided or prevented
Usage: the inevitable result
Definition: having momentous consequences; of decisive importance
Usage: that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea- Saturday Rev; the fatal day of the election finally arrived
Similar words: decisive
Definition: determining or having the power to determine an outcome
Usage: cast the decisive vote; two factors had a decisive influence
Synonyms: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful, disastrous
Definition: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
Usage: 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
Similar words: unfortunate
Definition: not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune
Usage: an unfortunate turn of events; an unfortunate decision; unfortunate investments; an unfortunate night for all concerned
Synonyms: foreboding, fateful, portentous
Definition: ominously prophetic
Similar words: prophetic, prophetical
Definition: foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
Usage: prophetic writings; prophetic powers; words that proved prophetic