fate

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
2. (countable, uncountable) The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
3. (countable, uncountable) An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
4. (countable, uncountable) Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
5. (alt-of, countable, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
6. (countable, uncountable) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
7. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Opposite of

free will, accident, chance, fortune, luck

Synonyms

destiny

fortune

lot

luck

🍀

doom

chance

🎲

karma

predestination

destine

kismet

portion

accident

disaster

retribution

predestine

horoscope

life

death

💀

fatality

misfortune

coincidence

circumstances

star

⭐

designate

ill fate

accidence

wealth

decease

predetermine

weird

end

🔚

dying

dole

allotment

limit

law

destination

cause and effect

agreement

incident

demise

bounds

degree

Jain

fortuity

decreed

bad luck

agreeable

foredoom

fluke

Translations

Schicksal

destin

destino

destino

destino

lot

μοίρα

sorte

fato

sort

destí

sorte

قدر

azar

🍀

destinée

Pronounced as (IPA)

/feɪt/

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.