predestined
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Established or prearranged unalterably: Describes something that has been decided or fixed in advance, especially by a divine power or fate, and cannot be changed.
Usage
- The adjective predestined is used to describe a person, event, or outcome that is believed to be inevitable and determined beforehand.
- It often carries a religious or philosophical connotation, implying a divine plan or fate.
- It is typically used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like , , ).
Examples
- Attributive use:
- They felt their meeting was not an accident but a predestined event.
- He spoke with a sense of predestined purpose.
- Predicative use:
- Their victory seemed predestined from the start of the tournament.
- She always felt she was predestined for greatness.
Advanced Usage
- "to be predestined to (do) something": This common construction emphasizes the inevitable nature of a future action or state.
- The hero was predestined to save the kingdom.
- Some believe souls are predestined to either salvation or damnation.
Variants and Related Words
- Predestine (verb): To decide or determine (something) in advance.
- Theologians debate whether God predestines individuals.
- Predestination (noun): The doctrine or belief that all events have been willed by God, or the act of predestining.
- The concept of predestination is central to some religious beliefs.
- Foreordained (adjective): Very similar in meaning to ; decreed or determined beforehand.
- Fated (adjective): Governed by fate; destined. (Less specifically religious than ).
Synonyms
- Inevitable
- Preordained
- Doomed (when implying a negative outcome)
- Inescapable
Antonyms
- Accidental
- Coincidental
- Chance
- Contingent
- Avoidable
Adjective
- established or prearranged unalterably
- his place in history was foreordained
- a sense of predestinate inevitability about it
- it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world