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. Australian National University:

   The Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda in about four billion years. So knowing what kind of a monster our galaxy is up against is useful in finding out the Milky Ways ultimate fate.

2. Claude Louis Hector de Villars:

   Enjoy destiny's ride, its ur fate!♡!

3. Rainer Maria Rilke:

   At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

4. Anita Loos:

   Fate keeps on happening.

5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt:

   Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

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