destiny
/'destini/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The predetermined course of events: The idea that events are fixed in advance and cannot be changed, often thought of as a power or agency that controls what happens in the future.
- The events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future: What someone or something is destined to be or do; one's ultimate lot or fortune in life.
Examples
- Noun:
- She believed it was her destiny to become a great leader. (She felt it was predetermined that she would become a great leader.)
- The two friends felt their meeting was more than coincidence; it was destiny. (They felt their meeting was a fated event.)
- He accepted his destiny with quiet resignation. (He accepted the future that was meant for him without complaint.)
Advanced Usage
- "A twist of destiny": An unexpected and often significant turn of events that seems fated.
- A twist of destiny brought the long-lost siblings together. (An unforeseen fated event caused them to meet.)
- "To be in the hands of destiny": To be subject to the uncontrollable forces of fate.
- With the final decision made, the outcome was now in the hands of destiny. (The result was now beyond anyone's control, left to fate.)
- "To fulfill one's destiny": To achieve or live out the future one was meant to have.
- The artist felt she had finally fulfilled her destiny with her latest masterpiece. (She felt she had achieved what she was always meant to.)
Variants and Related Words
- Destined (adj): Having a future that has been decided or predetermined.
- He seemed destined for greatness from a young age.
- Destine (verb): To intend or choose for a particular purpose or fate (often used in passive voice).
- The funds were destined for charitable work.
- Predestination (n): The doctrine that all events have been willed by God, or the action of God in ordaining future events.
Synonyms
- Fate: The development of events beyond a person's control, often with a sense of inevitability and finality.
- Fortune: Chance or luck as an external force affecting human affairs; also, the good or bad things that happen to someone.
- Lot: A person's luck, fate, or condition in life.
- Providence: The protective care of God or nature as a spiritual power; often implies benevolent guidance.
Related Phrases
- "Seal someone's destiny": To decisively determine the future course of events for someone.
- That one mistake sealed his destiny. (That mistake fixed his future irrevocably.)
- "A date with destiny": An upcoming event or moment that is expected to be of crucial, fated importance.
- The championship game was their date with destiny. (The game was the crucial, fated moment they had been moving toward.)
Related Idioms
- "Man of destiny": A person believed to be destined to achieve great things or change the course of history.
- Many saw the young general as a man of destiny.
- "Tempt fate/destiny": To act in a way that risks causing something bad to happen, as if challenging fate.
- Driving that fast on icy roads is tempting destiny.
Noun
- 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
- the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
- we are helpless in the face of destiny
- an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future