cruel fate
Merciless life sentence
Cruel fate is an outcome or circumstance that seems deliberately harsh or unjust, as if destiny itself were malicious.
The phrase personifies fate as an agent capable of cruelty: Cruel fate took him just months before retirement.
It often appears in dramatic or literary contexts to describe tragic turns of events beyond anyone's control.
- tragicCausing great sorrow
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- misfortuneAdverse circumstance or event
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- mercilessShowing no clemency
heartless · unkind · bitter · bitter end · twisted · cursed · inevitable · ruthless · pitiless · unjust · suffering · torment · harsh · relentless · doomed · death sentence · star-crossed · wretched
- fatedestiny, kismet, Moira, Norns, doom
- lamentslamentation, wailing, keen, keening, lament
- tragedytragedy, tragic flaw, tragic hero, tragic heroes, tragic irony
- ironic twistspoetic justice, dramatic irony, situational irony, tragic irony, reversal of fortune
cruel fatelucky break
Unforeseen favorable occurrence
good fortune · stroke of luck · blessing · windfall · serendipity
cruel fatedivine blessing
Sacred favor from deity
poetic justice · just reward · grace · answered prayer · divine favor
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