fate
About 21.98 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- noun The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- noun An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- noun Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
Accept your fate.
- noun Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
- noun The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
- noun The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
- 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.
Similar words
destiny destine designate fortune luck portion lot doom circumstances kismet
Often followed by
of and is was that in to had as
Word family
Fates fated fates fating
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