Synonyms for fate
feɪtfate

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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

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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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. fate

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

   Antonyms:
   will, choice, decision, freedom, independence

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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, 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 WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. fatenoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "fate":

   destiny, destination, whereabouts, plight, lot, target, luck, spell, destin, doom, batch, self-determination, become, curse, fortune, consignment, sort

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1. Alexander Pope:

   But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

2. Erik Pevernagie:

   The whole wire system of the brain could be disconnected in a spark of a second by a sometimes unsignificant detail. An unexpected incident or an innocuous phone call may provoke an ethereal distress that might plunge one’s life into chaos and like a sudden twist of fate overturn everything, ransacking the assembled experiences of our history. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)

3. Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON:

   Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

4. John Fletcher:

   Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.

5. Tim Albrecht:

   It is to be hoped that Osram will be spared this fate.