Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having power to foretell future events; prophetic.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
prophecy ;prophetic
Etymologies
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Examples
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On that fatidic 9/11 and virtually every day: 31,185 children died due to hunger and desease.
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It will be a place where we can wait for the fatidic denouement that will come sooner or later in Venezuela, waiting because there is little we can do now as Chavez holds everything.
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It will be a place where we can wait for the fatidic denouement that will come sooner or later in Venezuela, waiting because there is little we can do now as Chavez holds everything.
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On that fatidic 9/11 and virtually every day: 31,185 children died due to hunger and desease.
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Just as the Jeremiahs incorrectly predicted blogging would be the death knell of professional journalists everywhere--heaven forbid--the same fatidic crew probably think the advent of the blogging phone means photojournalism is now also a moribund profession.
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This takes us to the fatidic date of December 15, 1999.
Rains and the Quest for Absolute Power: Chronicle of a Criminal Negligence 2005
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This takes us to the fatidic date of December 15, 1999.
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When Netscape made the fatidic decision of opening the source code of its flagship product and later of rewriting it from the scrath it became clear that an era had ended.
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When Netscape made the fatidic decision of opening the source code of its flagship product and later of rewriting it from the scrath it became clear that an era had ended.
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This fatidic day, September 13th, 1759, had its sequel, eight months later, on St. Foye's slopy grounds.
Quebec Old and New 1944
whichbe commented on the word fatidic
Foretelling the future; prophetic; divinatory.
May 16, 2008
yarb commented on the word fatidic
He was to recall with a fatidic shiver seventeen years later when Lucette, in her last note to him, mailed from Paris...
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor.
May 17, 2008