Synonyms for fate
feɪtfate

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1. fatenoun

   Synonyms:
   necessity, orlay, destiny, lot, doom, fortune, predestination

   Antonyms:
   freedom, choice, free will

2. fatenoun

   To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

   The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father, not all his striving could change what would occur.

   Synonyms:
   fortune, orlay, doom, predestination, necessity, destiny, lot

   Antonyms:
   freedom, free will, choice

3. fatenoun

   The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

   Synonyms:
   orlay, destiny, lot, doom, necessity, fortune, predestination

   Antonyms:
   freedom, free will, choice

4. fatenoun

   Destiny (perhaps connotes death, ruin, misfortune, etc.).

   Accept your fate.

   Synonyms:
   necessity, doom, fortune, destiny, lot, orlay, predestination

   Antonyms:
   freedom, free will, choice

5. fatenoun

   The three goddesses (The Fates) of classic European mythology who are said to control the fate of human beings.

   Synonyms:
   predestination, destiny, doom, orlay, lot, necessity, fortune

   Antonyms:
   choice, freedom, free will

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1. fate

   Necessity is the quality of being necessary, or the quality of that which can not but be, become, or be true, or be accepted as true. Need and want always imply a lack; necessity may be used in this sense, but in the higher philosophical sense necessity simply denotes the exclusion of any alternative either in thought or fact; righteousness is a necessity (not a need) of the divine nature. Need suggests the possibility of supplying the deficiency which want expresses; to speak of a person's want of decision merely points out a weakness in his character; to say that he has need of decision implies that he can exercise or attain it. As applied to a deficiency, necessity is more imperative than need; a weary person is in need of rest; when rest becomes a necessity he has no choice but to stop work. An essential is something, as a quality, or element, that belongs to the essence of something else so as to be inseparable from it in its normal condition, or in any complete idea or statement of it. Compare NECESSARY; PREDESTINATION.

   Synonyms:
   compulsion, destiny, emergency, essential, exigency, extremity, fatality, indispensability, indispensableness, necessity, need, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, unavoidableness, urgency, want

   Antonyms:
   choice, contingency, doubt, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fortuity, freedom, option, possibility, uncertainty

   Preposition:
   The necessity of surrender; a necessity for action; this is a necessity to me.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. fate

   Synonyms:
   necessity, destiny, lot, end, fortune, doom

   Antonyms:
   will, choice, decision, freedom, independence

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.7 / 3 votes

1. destiny, fatenoun

   an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

   Synonyms:
   luck, portion, fortune, circumstances, destiny, lot

2. destiny, fatenoun

   the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)

   "we are helpless in the face of destiny"

   Synonyms:
   luck, portion, fortune, circumstances, destiny, lot

3. fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portionverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, fortune, peck, mint, band, plenty, lot, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, portion, parcel, dowry, spate, muckle, mass, constituent, pile, share, good deal, stack, chance, luck, destiny, deal, serving, dowery, dower, percentage, caboodle, hazard, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, component, slew, heap, mess, part, bunch, sight, circumstances, mountain, draw, helping, component part, set, great deal, pot, circle

4. destine, fate, doom, designateverb

   decree or designate beforehand

   "She was destined to become a great pianist"

   Synonyms:
   denominate, destine, intend, depute, delegate, show, specify, indicate, doom, sentence, point, designate, condemn, assign

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1. fatenoun

   Synonyms:
   destiny, destination, fatality, inevitable necessity

2. fatenoun

   Synonyms:
   doom, lot, predetermined event

3. fatenoun

   Synonyms:
   death, destruction

4. fatenoun

   Synonyms:
   final event, ultimate fortune

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. fatenoun

   Synonyms:
   destiny, lot, doom, chance, fortune, moira, karma, kismet, predestination

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1. List of paraphrases for "fate":

   destiny, destination, whereabouts, plight, lot, target, luck, spell, destin, doom, batch, self-determination, become, curse, fortune, consignment, sort

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1. Sirajuddin Haqqani:

   So we are more secure now than we were 20 years ago, but my fear is that the decision to leave Afghanistan to its fate without any sort of military capabilities there to continue to fight terrorists is putting us in a weaker position than we were in just a couple of months ago.

2. Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo:

   It is a disturbing consequence of modern biological technology that the fate of the nascent human life, which the Embryos in this case represent, must be determined in a court by reference to cold legal principles.

3. RJ Intindola:

   Fate controls who walks into your life, but you decide who leaves, stays, and who you refuse to let go. Who stays depends on the bindings between you.

4. United States:

   The Afghan nation has not and will never allow any foreign power to determine The Afghan nation fate, given the multifaceted relationship between Afghanistan and the United States, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan calls for clarification on the United States President's statements.

5. Helen Keller:

   Confidence is the master of fate.