Antonyms of adj fateful

4 senses of fateful

Sense 1
fateful, fatal -- (having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived")

INDIRECT (VIA decisive) -> indecisive -- (not definitely settling something; "a long and indecisive war")

Sense 2
fateful, foreboding (prenominal), portentous -- (ominously prophetic)

INDIRECT (VIA prophetic) -> unprophetic -- (not prophetic; not foreseeing correctly)

Sense 3
black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful -- ((of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error")

INDIRECT (VIA unfortunate) -> fortunate -- (having unexpected good fortune; "other, less fortunate, children died"; "a fortunate choice")

Sense 4
fatal, fateful -- (controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events")

INDIRECT (VIA inevitable) -> evitable, avoidable, avertible, avertable -- (capable of being avoided or warded off)

Similarity of adj fateful

4 senses of fateful

Sense 1
fateful, fatal -- (having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived")
       => decisive (vs. indecisive) -- (determining or having the power to determine an outcome; "cast the decisive vote"; "two factors had a decisive influence")

Sense 2
fateful, foreboding (prenominal), portentous -- (ominously prophetic)
       => prophetic (vs. unprophetic), prophetical -- (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic")

Sense 3
black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful -- ((of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error")
       => unfortunate (vs. fortunate) -- (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned")

Sense 4
fatal, fateful -- (controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events")
       => inevitable (vs. evitable) -- (incapable of being avoided or prevented; "the inevitable result")