Decisive vs Fateful - What's the difference?
decisive | fateful |
Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
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Marked by promptness and decision.
Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.
Determined in advance by fate, fated.
As adjectives the difference between decisive and fateful
is that decisive is while fateful is momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.decisive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- ''A decisive battle is fatal for one side's war chances
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- A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character. -J. Foster.
Synonyms
* decided * positive * conclusiveAntonyms
* indecisiveDerived terms
* decisively * decisivenessReferences
* (Webster 1913) * ----fateful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.