Meanings
- Confined to a predetermined fate or destiny; certain.
He is sure he is destined for fame.
2 more examples
When Hape sauntered over for a try after only three minutes it looked as if England were destined for a comfortable victory, but Georgia are made of sterner stuff, as they showed when running Scotland close in Invercargill last week.
2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2021The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe.
2020 April 12, Simon Tisdall, “US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2022Synonyms: foreordained, preordained, predestined, bashert, doomed, fated, fateful, fatidic
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of destine
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveConfined to a predetermined fate or destiny; certain.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveheaded or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ‘college-bound students’
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Ancient Greek μόρσιμος
- μόρσιμος (mórsimos)confined to a predetermined fate
Dutch voorbestemd
- voorbestemdconfined to a predetermined fate
Esperanto destinita
- destinitaconfined to a predetermined fate
French prédestiné
- prédestinéconfined to a predetermined fate
German bestimmt, vorbestimmt
- bestimmtconfined to a predetermined fate
- vorbestimmtconfined to a predetermined fate
Hebrew נוֹעָד
- נוֹעָד (no'ád)confined to a predetermined fate
Latin fātālis
- fātālisconfined to a predetermined fate
Portuguese destinado
- destinadoconfined to a predetermined fate
Romanian sortit, menit
- sortitconfined to a predetermined fate
- menitconfined to a predetermined fate
Swedish ämnad
- ämnadconfined to a predetermined fate
Cite this entry
destined. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/destined
“destined.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/destined. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “destined,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/destined.
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