Antonyms for fate
feɪtfate

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1. fatenoun

   Antonyms:
   freedom, choice, free will

   Synonyms:
   necessity, orlay, destiny, lot, doom, fortune, predestination

2. fatenoun

   To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

   The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father, not all his striving could change what would occur.

   Antonyms:
   freedom, free will, choice

   Synonyms:
   fortune, orlay, doom, predestination, necessity, destiny, lot

3. fatenoun

   The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

   Antonyms:
   freedom, free will, choice

   Synonyms:
   orlay, destiny, lot, doom, necessity, fortune, predestination

4. fatenoun

   Destiny (perhaps connotes death, ruin, misfortune, etc.).

   Accept your fate.

   Antonyms:
   freedom, free will, choice

   Synonyms:
   necessity, doom, fortune, destiny, lot, orlay, predestination

5. fatenoun

   The three goddesses (The Fates) of classic European mythology who are said to control the fate of human beings.

   Synonyms:
   predestination, destiny, doom, orlay, lot, necessity, fortune

   Antonyms:
   choice, freedom, free will

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. fate

   Necessity is the quality of being necessary, or the quality of that which can not but be, become, or be true, or be accepted as true. Need and want always imply a lack; necessity may be used in this sense, but in the higher philosophical sense necessity simply denotes the exclusion of any alternative either in thought or fact; righteousness is a necessity (not a need) of the divine nature. Need suggests the possibility of supplying the deficiency which want expresses; to speak of a person's want of decision merely points out a weakness in his character; to say that he has need of decision implies that he can exercise or attain it. As applied to a deficiency, necessity is more imperative than need; a weary person is in need of rest; when rest becomes a necessity he has no choice but to stop work. An essential is something, as a quality, or element, that belongs to the essence of something else so as to be inseparable from it in its normal condition, or in any complete idea or statement of it. Compare NECESSARY; PREDESTINATION.

   Antonyms:
   choice, contingency, doubt, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fortuity, freedom, option, possibility, uncertainty

   Synonyms:
   compulsion, destiny, emergency, essential, exigency, extremity, fatality, indispensability, indispensableness, necessity, need, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, unavoidableness, urgency, want

   Preposition:
   The necessity of surrender; a necessity for action; this is a necessity to me.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. fate

   Antonyms:
   will, choice, decision, freedom, independence

   Synonyms:
   necessity, destiny, lot, end, fortune, doom

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.7 / 3 votes

1. destiny, fatenoun

   an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

   Synonyms:
   luck, portion, fortune, circumstances, destiny, lot

2. destiny, fatenoun

   the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)

   "we are helpless in the face of destiny"

   Synonyms:
   luck, portion, fortune, circumstances, destiny, lot

3. fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portionverb

   your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

   "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"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, fortune, peck, mint, band, plenty, lot, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, portion, parcel, dowry, spate, muckle, mass, constituent, pile, share, good deal, stack, chance, luck, destiny, deal, serving, dowery, dower, percentage, caboodle, hazard, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, component, slew, heap, mess, part, bunch, sight, circumstances, mountain, draw, helping, component part, set, great deal, pot, circle

4. destine, fate, doom, designateverb

   decree or designate beforehand

   "She was destined to become a great pianist"

   Synonyms:
   denominate, destine, intend, depute, delegate, show, specify, indicate, doom, sentence, point, designate, condemn, assign

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1. fatenoun

   Synonyms:
   destiny, lot, doom, chance, fortune, moira, karma, kismet, predestination

How to use fate in a sentence?

1. Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon:

   Etan, by his death, saved many, many children from a similar fate.

2. John Burroughs:

   Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

3. Tom Hanks:

   You are the chosen ones because of a fate unimagined when you began your Wright State University adventures, you started in the olden times, in a world back before the Great Pandemic of 2020. You will talk of those earlier years in your lives in just that way.

4. John Dryden:

   All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

5. Euripides:

   I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

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