fate
What must happen
Fate is the force or power believed to determine what happens—the idea that events are fixed in advance and beyond human control.
Your fate is your destiny, the outcome awaiting you: He accepted his fate.
The fates, in Greek mythology, were three goddesses who spun, measured, and cut the thread of each life.
To be fated is to be destined: They were fated to meet.
A fateful decision has momentous consequences.
To fate something is rare; the passive dominates: It was fated from the start.
Divine protective care
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- foreordinationPredetermined divine decree
preordainment · wheel of fortune · stars · lot · portion · determinism · predestination · star-crossed
Impossible to avoid
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
- predeterminedEstablished beforehand
- certainFree from doubt
- fixedRestored or immovable
immutable · unalterable · irrevocable · inexorable · destined · sealed · decreed · foregone conclusion
Wealth or destiny
- luckChance affecting outcomes
- serendipityAccidental fortunate discovery
- randomnessLack of predictable pattern
- happenstanceUnplanned circumstance
coincidence · fluke · accident · chance · lottery · roll of the dice · caprice · fortuitous
Foretelling of future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- omensProphetic signs or warnings
- fortune-tellingClaiming to predict futures
soothsayer · seer · clairvoyance · tarot · horoscope · astrology · palmistry · tea leaves
Sudden loss of power
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- demiseCessation of existence
- perditionEternal spiritual ruin
- catastropheDevastating, large-scale misfortune
calamity · destruction · undoing · nemesis · tragic end · damnation · curse · death sentence
Final result of events
- resultWhat follows a cause
- endFinal portion or cessation
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- lotLarge amount or portion
just deserts · comeuppance · retribution · judgment · reckoning · reaping · karmic justice · poetic justice
providence
Divine protective care
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- destinyPredetermined course of events
foreordination · preordainment · wheel of fortune · stars · lot · portion · determinism · predestination · star-crossed · written
inescapable
Impossible to avoid
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
- predeterminedEstablished beforehand
- certainFree from doubt
fixed · immutable · unalterable · irrevocable · inexorable · destined · sealed · decreed · foregone conclusion · certainty
fortune
Wealth or destiny
- luckChance affecting outcomes
- serendipityAccidental fortunate discovery
- randomnessLack of predictable pattern
happenstance · coincidence · fluke · accident · chance · lottery · roll of the dice · caprice · fortuitous · vagaries
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
fortune-telling · soothsayer · seer · clairvoyance · tarot · horoscope · astrology · palmistry · tea leaves · crystal ball
downfall
Sudden loss of power
catastrophe · calamity · destruction · undoing · nemesis · tragic end · damnation · curse · death sentence · doomed
outcome
Final result of events
- resultWhat follows a cause
- endFinal portion or cessation
- conclusionEnd or deduction
lot · just deserts · comeuppance · retribution · judgment · reckoning · reaping · karmic justice · poetic justice · final outcome
- abstract conceptsparadox, emotions, justice, truth, beauty
- epicIliad, Odyssey, Beowulf, Aeneid, Gilgamesh
- Epic mythologyhero's journey, epic quest, legendary voyage, divine intervention, mythical creatures
- fatedestiny, kismet, Moira, Norns, doom
- fate and chanceluck, destiny, fortune, coincidence, randomness
- fortunelucky, luck, fortune, destiny, jinxed
fatefree will
Autonomous choice capacity
choice · volition · agency · self-determination · autonomy
fatechance
Likelihood of occurrence
accident · randomness · coincidence · contingency · luck
- twist of fateUnexpected reversal of fortune
- fatal flawRuinous character defect
- tempting fateRisking bad outcomes recklessly
- tempt fateRecklessly invite misfortune
- fatal accidentUnintended event causing death
- fatal woundInjury causing death
fatal, fated, fateful, fatality, fates, fatalism, fatalities, fatalistic, fatalist