Fate

Quick meaning: Fate is a noun meaning The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

Meaning

The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

More Meanings

1. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
2. An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
3. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
4. (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
5. (biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
6. (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
7. (embryology) The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint

Example Sentences

Accept your fate.

Before they met, Rebecca Guberman and Jennifer Jako were both certain they were fated to be alone.

The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.

At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.

Word Forms

• fates
• fating
• fated

Synonyms for fate

Depending on context, synonyms include chance, destin, destiny, doom, fatality, foredoom.

Antonyms for fate

Common opposites include choice, free will, luck, accident, chance, fortune.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include destiny, designate, fortune, luck, portion, lot.

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