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verhängnisvoll — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • disastrous adj Causing great damage or harm; having the nature of a disaster.
  • fatal adj Causing death.
  • fateful adj Having major, often life-changing, consequences.
  • ominous adj Suggesting that something bad is about to happen; threatening or foreboding.

Senses

verhängnisvoll is used for these senses in English:

  • disastrous Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
  • fatal (rare, archaic) Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.
  • fateful Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
  • ill-fated unlucky; doomed.
  • ominous Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

fatal — full definition

  1. adj Causing death.
  2. adj Causing serious harm, ruin, or failure, especially to a plan or process.

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