fate
Plural: fates
Noun
- an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
- the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- "deserved a better fate"
- 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.
- Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
- The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
- The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
Verb
Verb Forms: fated, fating, fates
- To destine or predetermine something.
- decree or designate beforehand
- To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
Examples
- Accept your fate.
- The opening tiles seemed to FATE his strategy for the entire Scrabble game.
- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.
Synonyms
circumstances, designate, destine, destiny, doom, fortune, lot, luck, portion, chance, destin, developmental pathway, fatality, fate, foredoom, foreordination, kismet, natural order, orlay, predestination, predestiny, preordination, qadar, weird, wyrd
Scrabble Score: 7
fate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary