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Wiktionary4.1 / 7 votes

  1. fatenoun

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

    Antonyms:
    freedom, choice, free will

  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.

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

    Antonyms:
    freedom, free will, choice

  3. fatenoun

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

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

    Antonyms:
    freedom, free will, choice

  4. fatenoun

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

    Accept your fate.

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

    Antonyms:
    freedom, free will, choice

  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 Antonyms4.0 / 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.

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

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. fate

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

    Antonyms:
    will, choice, decision, freedom, independence

Princeton's WordNet4.7 / 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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fatenoun

    Synonyms:
    destiny, destination, fatality, inevitable necessity

  2. fatenoun

    Synonyms:
    doom, lot, predetermined event

  3. fatenoun

    Synonyms:
    death, destruction

  4. fatenoun

    Synonyms:
    final event, ultimate fortune

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. fatenoun

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

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How to use fate in a sentence?

  1. Alfred Victor Vigny:

    Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

  2. United States:

    The Afghan nation has not and will never allow any foreign power to determine The Afghan nation fate, given the multifaceted relationship between Afghanistan and the United States, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan calls for clarification on the United States President's statements.

  3. Bernhard Pacher:

    The remaining 20 percent of customers are private collectors or authors of historical books who need the objects for their books, the fate of each good collection in the long-run is to end up in a museum.

  4. Narsha Bulgakbaev:

    A dream is an empty imagination, a goal is an empty will, the best thing is that today is better than yesterday, and you are on the path of eternal spiritual development. In order not to blame others later, fate, God, life, dreams and goals must be believable and realistic.

  5. Albert Einstein:

    To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.


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