Difference between Fateful and Fatal

What is the difference between Fateful and Fatal?

Fateful as an adjective is momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate. while Fatal as an adjective is proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.

Fateful

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate. Determined in advance by fate, fated.

Fatal

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.Foreboding death or great disaster.Causing death or destruction.

Example sentence: The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

We hope you now know whether to use Fateful or Fatal in your sentence.

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