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unavoidable, necessary, essential, inescapable, ineluctable:<br />

The events fell into their fatal sequence.<br />

fatality n. 1 catastrophe, disaster, calamity, cataclysm: The eruption<br />

of Vesuvius was a relatively recent fatality. 2 death,<br />

casualty: Traffic fatalities are on the increase.<br />

fate<br />

fated<br />

n. 1 fortune, lot, luck, chance, life, destiny, God's will,<br />

providence, doom, karma, kismet, toss or throw of the dice,<br />

Colloq US and Canadian the breaks, the way the cookie crumbles,<br />

the way the ball bounces: Fate has brought us together. Our<br />

meeting this way was just fate. 2 doom, destruction, downfall,<br />

undoing, ruin, disaster, collapse, death, nemesis, end, finish:<br />

The defenders of Masada met their fate bravely. 3 end, outcome,<br />

future, destination, disposition: There was no trace of the<br />

fate of the explorers. What is to be the fate of this obsolete<br />

equipment?<br />

adj. 1 destined, predestined, predetermined, decreed, doomed,<br />

fateful, ordained, foreordained, preordained, decided: The<br />

fated day of my trial arrived. 2 sure, certain, doomed, damned,<br />

cursed: Was I fated to spend the rest of my life in this fetid<br />

dungeon? 3 fatal, fateful, unavoidable, inescapable,<br />

inevitable, ineluctable: Their fated punishment was to bail out<br />

the sea using sieves.<br />

fateful adj. 1 significant, momentous, ominous, major, consequential,<br />

important, critical, crucial, decisive, weighty, portentous,<br />

earth-shaking, pivotal: The minister is faced with having to<br />

make a fateful decision. 2 deadly, lethal, fatal, destructive,<br />

ruinous, disastrous, catastrophic, cataclysmic: Failure to<br />

preserve the environment could have fateful consequences.<br />

father n. 1 sire, paterfamilias, Colloq dad, daddy, pa, papa, pop, old<br />

man, old boy, Brit governor, pater: His father is a chemist. 2<br />

forebear, ancestor, forefather, progenitor, primogenitor: The<br />

father of the dynasty fought at Hastings. 3 creator, founder,<br />

originator, inventor, author, architect, framer, initiator: He<br />

regards Lavoisier as the father of modern chemistry. 4 priest,<br />

confessor, cur‚, abb‚, minister, pastor, shepherd, parson,<br />

clergyman, chaplain, Colloq padre, Military slang sky pilot: We<br />

should see the Father about the funeral service.

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