1 having important consequences; decisively important. 2 bringing death or disaster.

Is fateful Good or bad?

If an action or a time when something happened is described as fateful, it is considered to have an important, and often very bad, effect on future events.

What does it mean to be fateful?

1 : having a quality of ominous prophecy a fateful remark. 2a : involving momentous consequences : decisive made his fateful decision to declare war— W. L. Shirer. b : deadly, catastrophic. 3 : controlled by fate : foreordained.