fated

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪtɪd/

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  • (General American) IPA^(key): [ˈfeɪ̯ɾɨd]
  • Homophone: faded
• Rhymes: -eɪtɪd

Adjective

fated (not comparable)

1. Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.

   Synonyms: fateful, predestined; see also Thesaurus:fated

   • 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 89:

     This scheme was fated to be forgotten, at any rate in the form of the 1820 proposal.

   • 2024 April 29, Martin Pengelly, Ramon Antonio Vargas, “Kristi Noem’s story of killing her dog points to class two misdemeanor”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Kristi Noem […] may have committed a class two misdemeanor offence when her fated dog Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer Noem deemed “untrainable” for hunting pheasant, killed a neighbor’s chickens.

Derived terms

• confated
• fatedly
• fatedness
• ill-fated
• unfated

Related terms

• fateful

Translations

foreordain, predetermined

Bulgarian: предопределен (bg) (predopredelen), обречен (bg) (obrečen) German: vorbestimmt (de) Greek: Ancient: μόρσιμος (mórsimos) Portuguese: predestinado, fadado (pt) Swedish: ödesbestämd

Verb

fated

1. (rare) simple past and past participle of fate

Anagrams

• defat