fated
adjUS [ˈfeɪ̯ɾɨd] · /ˈfeɪtɪd/
1
Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.
- This scheme was fated to be forgotten, at any rate in the form of the 1820 proposal.1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 89:
- Kristi Noem[…] may have committed a class two misdemeanor offence when her fated dog Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer Noem deemed “untrainable” for hunting pheasant, killed a neighbor’s chickens.2024 April 29, Martin Pengelly, Ramon Antonio Vargas, “Kristi Noem’s story of killing her dog points to class two misdemeanor”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Synonyms
- bashert, destined, doomed, fated, fateful, fatidic, foreordained, predestined, predevote, preordained, weird
- Antonyms
- undestined, undoomed, unfated, unpreordained
- Related terms
- fateful, in the cards, in the stars, written in the stars, certain
- Hyponyms
- auspicious, ominous, confated