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Crucial vs Fateful - What's the difference?

crucial | fateful |

As adjectives the difference between crucial and fateful

is that crucial is being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important while fateful is momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.

crucial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-07, author= Nicole Vulser
    • , volume=190, issue=13, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies , passage=The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial , but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.}}
  • (label) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
  • Term of approval, particularly when applied to reggae music.

    • Derived terms

    * crucial experiment

    Related terms

    * cross * crux

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    fateful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.
    • It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.
  • Determined in advance by fate, fated.