fated

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/ˈfeɪtɪd/US[ˈfeɪ̯ɾɨd]

adjective

Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.

Similar
fatefulpredestinedbashertdestineddoomedfatidicforeordainedpredevote
Opposite
undestinedundoomedunfatedunpreordained
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Meanings

adjectivefated (not comparable)
  1. not comparableForeordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.

    This scheme was fated to be forgotten, at any rate in the form of the 1820 proposal.

    1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 89
    1 more example

    Kristi Noem[…] may have committed a class two misdemeanor offence when her fated dog Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer Noem deemed “untrainable” for hunting pheasant, killed a neighbor’s chickens.

    2024 April 29, Martin Pengelly, Ramon Antonio Vargas, “Kristi Noem’s story of killing her dog points to class two misdemeanor”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

    Synonyms: fateful, predestined, bashert, destined, doomed, fateful, fatidic, foreordained

verb
  1. participlepastraresimple past and past participle of fate

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveForeordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.

Similar
fatefulpredestinedbashertdestineddoomedfatefulfatidicforeordainedpredestinedpredevotepreordainedweird
Opposite
undestinedundoomedunfatedunpreordained

More synonyms by meaning

adjective(usually followed by ‘to’) determined by tragic fate

Similar
doomedcertainsure
Also see
certaindestineddoomedfatefulfatidicforeordainedpredevotepreordainedsureweird

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Ancient Greek μόρσιμος
  • μόρσιμος (mórsimos)foreordain, predetermined
Bulgarian предопределен, обречен
  • предопределен (predopredelen)foreordain, predetermined
  • обречен (obrečen)foreordain, predetermined
German vorbestimmt
  • vorbestimmtforeordain, predetermined
Polish przesądzony z góry, nieuchronny
  • przesądzony z góryforeordain, predetermined
  • nieuchronnyforeordain, predetermined
  • nieuniknionyforeordain, predetermined
  • skazanyforeordain, predetermined
Portuguese predestinado, fadado
  • predestinadoforeordain, predetermined
  • fadadoforeordain, predetermined
Swedish ödesbestämd
  • ödesbestämdforeordain, predetermined

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with fated

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Sounds the same

fadedfaded

Anagrams

defat
Cite this entry
APA

fated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fated

MLA

“fated.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fated. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fated,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fated.

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