fate
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/feɪt/
English
Definitions
noun
- The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.“Accept your fate.”
verb
- To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.“The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.”
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Synonyms
destinydoomfortunekismetlotnecessityorlaypredestinationwyrddestinedesignateluckportioncircumstancesfatalityintendedfuturefatalism