• adj.
    ⦿having momentous consequences; of decisive importance
    lexical concept
  • that fateful meeting of the U.N. when … it declared war on North Korea
  • the fatal day of the election finally arrived

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:fatal
  2. enl:fateful
wn:interlingual indexili:i3816

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelfatalfateful