Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of preordain
- not comparabledetermined in advance; predestined
1 more example
The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10 minutes. In addition, the size of each block bounty would halve every 210,000 blocks—first from 50 bitcoins to 25, then from 25 to 12.5, and so on. Around the year 2140, the currency would reach its preordained limit of 21 million bitcoins.
2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2025Synonyms: fateful, foreordained, bashert, destined, doomed, fated, fateful, fatidic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivedetermined in advance; predestined
Translations
Latin fātālis
- fātālispredestined
Persian مقدر
- مقدر (moqaddar)predestined
Polish przesądzony, wyznaczony
- przesądzonypredestined
- wyznaczonypredestined
Russian предопределенный
- предопределенный (predopredelennyj)predestined
Vietnamese an bài
- an bàipredestined
Cite this entry
preordained. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preordained
“preordained.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preordained. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “preordained,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preordained.
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