fate
/feɪt/noun, verb1 syllable
Fate means: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you).
Synonyms for fate21
noun, as in your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
noun, as in an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
noun, as in the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events
also used for fate
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What does fate mean?4
noun
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)“whatever my fortune may be”
an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events“we are helpless in the face of destiny”
verb
decree or designate beforehand“She was destined to become a great pianist”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with fate?44
three syllables
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Fate in a sentence
- It's about fate, a calling, the longing for a better world.AlanF_US
- She didn't believe in fate, but insisted that their meeting had to be predetermined.swolesuki
- Although our universe is still young, theorists are busy exploring its ultimate fate.CM
- I walked without hope, already resigned to the certain fate of being abandoned forever.Mithridates
- It was his fate to suffer this, too.Nylez
- Do we shape our own destiny, or does fate guide us?Igider
- On the way, he met many people who shared the same fate.rul
- A proponent of passivism, he tended to let events unfold as fate willed.Leglaine
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Forms of fate
as a noun
- plural
- fates
as a verb
- past tense
- fated
- present participle
- fating
- third-person singular
- fates
- past participle
- fated