fate
noun
[ feɪt ]
• the development of events outside a person's control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power.
• "fate decided his course for him"
Similar:
destiny,
providence,
God's will,
nemesis,
kismet,
astral influence,
the stars,
what is written in the stars,
one's lot in life,
predestination,
predetermination,
chance,
luck,
serendipity,
fortuity,
fortune,
hazard,
Lady Luck,
Dame Fortune,
karma,
dole,
cup,
heritage,
• three goddesses who presided over the birth and life of humans. Each person's destiny was thought of as a thread spun, measured, and cut by the three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.
Similar:
the weird sisters,
the Parcae,
the Moirai,
the Norns,
fate
verb
• be destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way.
• "the regime was fated to end badly"
Similar:
be predestined,
be preordained,
be foreordained,
be destined,
be meant,
be doomed,
be foredoomed,
be cursed,
be damned,
be sure,
be certain,
be bound,
be guaranteed,
be inevitable,
be inescapable,
be ineluctable,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Italian fato or (later) from its source, Latin fatum ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’.
