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Faceful vs Fateful - What's the difference?

faceful | fateful |

As a noun faceful

is an amount that fills or covers the face.

As an adjective fateful is

momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.

faceful

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An amount that fills or covers the face.
  • * 2006 , Noel Perrin, Terry Osborne, Best person rural: essays of a sometime farmer (page 81)
    • Because l didn't dare take either hand off the wheel, I did get a few facefuls of snow, passing under hemlocks with especially low-drooped branches, but that was a cheap price for getting the tractor safely out.

    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.