Antonyms for destiny
ˈdɛs tə nides·tiny

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1. destinynoun

   Synonyms:
   fate, orlay

2. destinynoun

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   Synonyms:
   orlay, fate

3. destinynoun

   The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

   Synonyms:
   orlay, fate

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. destiny

   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, emergency, essential, exigency, extremity, fatality, fate, 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:2.0 / 1 vote

1. destiny

   Antonyms:
   will, volition, choice, deliberation, freedom, freewill

   Synonyms:
   fate, decree, lot, fortune, predestination, necessity, doom, end

Matched Categories

1. • Causal Agent
   • Condition
   • Happening

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 7 votes

1. destiny, fatenoun

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

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

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

   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, fate, 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, 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

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1. destinynoun

   Synonyms:
   fate, doom, lot, fortune

How to use destiny in a sentence?

1. Patrick Overton:

   Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.

2. Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller:

   There is no such thing as chance and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

3. James Allen:

   The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

4. Agnes de Mille:

   No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

5. Marcus Aurelius:

   No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

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