fated
[fey-tid]
- subject to, guided by, or predetermined by fate; destined.
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Origin of fated
fate
[feyt]
- something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.
- the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time: Fate decreed that they would never meet again.
- that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny: Death is our ineluctable fate.
- a prophetic declaration of what must be: The oracle pronounced their fate.
- death, destruction, or ruin.
- the Fates, Classical Mythology. the three goddesses of destiny, known to the Greeks as the Moerae and to the Romans as the Parcae.
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- to predetermine, as by the decree of fate; destine (used in the passive): a person who was fated to be the savior of the country.
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Origin of fate
1325–75; Middle English < Latin fātum utterance, decree of fate, destiny, orig. neuter of fātus, past participle of fārī to speak
Synonyms
See more synonyms for fate on Thesaurus.com1. karma, kismet; chance, luck. Fate, destiny, doom refer to the idea of a fortune, usually adverse, that is predetermined and inescapable. The three words are frequently interchangeable. Fate stresses the irrationality and impersonal character of events: It was Napoleon's fate to be exiled. The word is often lightly used, however: It was my fate to meet her that very afternoon. Destiny emphasizes the idea of an unalterable course of events, and is often used of a propitious fortune: It was his destiny to save his nation. Doom especially applies to the final ending, always unhappy or terrible, brought about by destiny or fate: He met his doom bravely. 7. foreordain, preordain.
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Examples from the Web for fated
Contemporary Examples
Fated to die in the end like all the others he describes himself as “the saddest man in the world… infinitely sad.”
All of which raises the question, is the era of free capital movement just a bubble, fated to end one of these years, maybe soon?
Nor is it fated that Israelis and Palestinians on both sides of the border live in perpetual fear.
Today, they have shown their detractors that they are not fated to live under the rule of strongmen.
Yiyun Li is a phenomenal writer whose rapid if convoluted rise to literary prominence seems both accidental and fated.
Historical Examples
Whichever it was, that was all that I was fated to see or hear of the Opera.
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
To Hondscio then was that harassing deadly, his fall there was fated.
BeowulfAnonymous
I suppose that these things may be regarded as fated,—and I think that they are well.
ApologyPlato
No matter where I went, on land or water, I was fated to meet these two.
The Rise of Roscoe PaineJoseph C. Lincoln
For under a cloud Flora de Barral was fated to be even at sea.
ChanceJoseph Conrad
fated
- destined
- doomed to death or destruction
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fate
- the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events
- the inevitable fortune that befalls a person or thing; destiny
- the end or final result
- a calamitous or unfavourable outcome or result; death, destruction, or downfall
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- (tr; usually passive) to predetermine; doomhe was fated to lose the game
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Word Origin
C14: from Latin fātum oracular utterance, from fārī to speak
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Word Origin and History for fated
fate
n.
late 14c., from Latin fata, neuter plural of fatum "prophetic declaration, oracle, prediction," thus "that which is ordained, destiny, fate," literally "thing spoken (by the gods)," from neuter past participle of fari "to speak," from PIE *bha- (2) "speak" (see fame (n.)).
The Latin sense evolution is from "sentence of the Gods" (Greek theosphaton) to "lot, portion" (Greek moira, personified as a goddess in Homer), also "one of the three goddesses (Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos) who determined the course of a human life." The native word was wyrd (see weird).
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fate
v.
"to preordain as if by fate; to be destined by fate," c.1600, from fate (n.). Related: Fated; fating. Earlier it meant "to destroy" (c.1400).
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Idioms and Phrases with fated
fate
In addition to the idioms beginning with fate
- fate worse than death, a
also see:
- seal one's fate
- tempt fate
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