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Frightening vs Fateful - What's the difference?

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Frightening is a related term of fateful.


As adjectives the difference between frightening and fateful

is that frightening is causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary while fateful is momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.

As a verb frightening

is .

frightening

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
    • The frightening scientist lived in an old shack.
  • (figuratively) Awful, terrible, very bad.

    • Synonyms

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    Verb

    (head)
    • The scientist was frightening the timid children.

    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.