Fate

Noun

 * 1) The cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
 * 2) The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
 * 3) Destiny (perhaps connotes death, ruin, misfortune, etc.).
 * 4) The three goddesses (The Fates) of classic European mythology who are said to control the fate of human beings.

Verb

 * 1)  To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

Adjectives for Fate
indulgent; tempted; solemn; inexorable; ultimate; special; pure; untoward; unchallenged; relentless; kindly; subsequent; uncommon; cruel; bitter; ignominious; blind; baffling; cramping; tragic; hostile; fixed; adverse; obedient; precious; unenviable; inevitable; awful; varied (plural); incumbent; obdurate; dismal; probable; narrower; tcarcompelling; fairest; obliging; uncertain; evil; chequered; vanquished; whimsical; dedicated; happy; pursuing; favoring; deplorable; melancholy; endangered; ungentle; oracular; fabled; vulgar; worldly; harsh; indifferent; ruthless; unconscious; impending: proper; insensate; hapless; thwarting; sundering; monarchial; horrible; undoubted; ample; leafless; un¬gracious.

Verbs for Fate
accept—; challenge—; cloud—; confront by—; dodge—; fulfill—; hinge on—; impose by—; mould—; outwit—; preside over—; prophesy—; resign to—; scoff at—; seal—; share—; work out—; —crushes; —deals; — destines; —engulfs; —fashions; —hangs; — moulds; —orders; —pushes; —singles out; —tortures.

Synonyms for Fate
destiny, doom, fortune, lot, necessity, predestination, end, goal, death, luck, finish, chance, predetermination, consummation, fortune, misfortune.

Antonyms for Fate
choice, free will, freedom

Derived terms

 * fatal
 * fatalism
 * fatality

Related terms

 * amor fati (Amor fati)

Thesaurus
ordain, otherworld, outcome, part, payoff, percentage, period, peroration, piece, planets, portion, portion off, postexistence, predetermination, preordain, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, proportion, providence, quantum, quietus, quota, rake-off, random sample, ration, relentlessness, reserve, resolution, resting place, restrict, restrict to, result, risk, ruin, run of luck, schedule, segment, serendipity, set, set apart, set aside, set off, share, slice, small share, stake, stars, statistical probability, stock, stoppage, stopping place, sureness, swan song, tag, term, terminal, termination, terminus, the beyond, the breaks, the good hereafter, the grave, the great beyond, the great hereafter, the hereafter, the unknown, theory of probability, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, uncontrollability, undeflectability, undoing, unlucky day, unpreventability, unyieldingness, upshot, vis major, weird, what bodes, what is fated, whatever comes, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven, windup, world to come, a better place, accidentality, act of God, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, afterlife, afterworld, allocate, allot, allotment, allowance, apodosis, appoint, appointed lot, appropriate to, assign, assign to, astral influences, astrology, bane, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, book of fate, break, budget, casualness, catastrophe, ceasing, certainty, cessation, chance, chunk, circumstance, coda, collapse, commission, conclusion, consequence, constellation, consummation, contingent, crack of doom, culmination, cup, curtain, curtains, cut, deal, death, death knell, deathblow, decease, denouement, destinate, destination, destine, destiny, destruction, detail, determine, devote, dies funestis, disaster, disposition, dividend, dole, doom, downfall, earmark, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, equal share, eschatology, eternal home, expiration, fatality, fatefulness, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, flukiness, force majeure, foredoom, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, future, future state, gamble, goal, good fortune, good luck, half, halver, hap, happenstance, happy chance, heedless hap, helping, home, how they fall, ides of March, indefeasibility, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, ineluctability, inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, inflexibility, interest, irrevocability, issue, izzard, karma, kismet, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, law of averages, life, life after death, life to come, lot, luck, make assignments, mark, mark off, mark out for, measure, meed, mess, modicum, moiety, moira, necessity, nemesis, next world, omega, opportunity,

Etymology
From fata: (neutral plural of fatum:).

Noun

 * Arabic:, مصير, قدر
 * Armenian: ճակատագիր,
 * Belarusian: лёс
 * Bulgarian: съдба, участ, орис
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 命運, 命运,, , , , 运命
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:, úděl
 * Danish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ბედი
 * German:, , Geschick
 * Greek:, ειμαρμένη, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, ,


 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: (運命), 숙명 (宿命)
 * Kurdish: چاره‌نووس
 * Latin: fatum
 * Macedonian: mazdeni
 * Old English: wyrd
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , участь, , удел
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: усуд, ,
 * Roman: usud, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Ukrainian:, льос


 * Armenian:, ճակատագիր
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew:  [luck], גורל
 * Indonesian: nasib
 * Kurdish: چاره‌نووس


 * Latin: fatum
 * Russian:, , участь,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: усуд, суђаја
 * Roman: usud, suđaja
 * Swahili:


 * Arabic:, مصير, قدر
 * Armenian: ճակատագիր
 * Basque: ,
 * Belarusian: лёс
 * Bulgarian: съдба, участ, орис
 * Catalan: destí,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 命運, 命运,, , , , 运命
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sorto
 * Estonian: saatus
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern: ,
 * Hebrew:, גורל
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 숙명 (宿命), (運命)
 * Kurdish: چاره‌نووس, قه‌زا و قه‌ده‌ر
 * Latin: fatum
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: soartă
 * Russian:, , участь, , удел
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:, льос


 * Dutch:


 * Swahili:

Anagrams

 * EFTA
 * feat, feat.
 * feta
 * TAFE

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