fate
1. an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future (Freq. 9)
• Syn:
destiny
• Hypernyms:
happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
• Hyponyms:
inevitable, karma, kismet, kismat, predestination,
doom, doomsday, day of reckoning, end of the world
2. the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman) (Freq. 4)
- we are helpless in the face of destiny
• Syn:
destiny
• Hypernyms:
causal agent, cause, causal agency
• Part Holonyms:
supernatural, occult
3. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) (Freq. 2)
- whatever my fortune may be
- deserved a better fate
- has a happy lot
- the luck of the Irish
- a victim of circumstances
- success that was her portion
• Syn:
fortune, destiny, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
• Hypernyms:
condition
• Hyponyms:
good fortune, luckiness, good luck, providence, misfortune,
bad luck, tough luck, ill luck, failure
decree or designate beforehand
- She was destined to become a great pianist
• Syn:
destine, doom, designate
• Derivationally related forms:
destination (for: destine)
• Hypernyms:
ordain
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
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