foredoom
Seal fate early
To foredoom is to doom in advance—to condemn or destine to failure, destruction, or misfortune before events unfold.
The word carries a sense of inevitable fate: The expedition was foredoomed from the start.
A foredoomed enterprise has no real chance of success, its failure sealed before it begins.
Predetermined course of events
- foreordainFix fate in advance
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- lotLarge amount or portion
- providenceDivine protective care
divine plan · fatalism · determinism · necessity · karma · ordained · sealed · written
Predict through revelation
- foretellPredict future events
- presageIndicate beforehand
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
augury · oracle · soothsaying · vaticinate · foreshadow · portend · forewarning · premonition
Impossible to prevent
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
- certainFree from doubt
- imminentAbout to occur
- impendingSoon to occur
unalterable · irrevocable · fixed · determined · sure · guaranteed · unpreventable · inexorable
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- foreordainFix fate in advance
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- lotLarge amount or portion
providence · divine plan · fatalism · determinism · necessity · karma · ordained · sealed · written · decreed
prophesy
Predict through revelation
- foretellPredict future events
- presageIndicate beforehand
- prognosticationForetelling future events
divination · augury · oracle · soothsaying · vaticinate · foreshadow · portend · forewarning · premonition · harbinger
unavoidable
Impossible to prevent
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
- certainFree from doubt
- imminentAbout to occur
impending · unalterable · irrevocable · fixed · determined · sure · guaranteed · unpreventable · inexorable · sealed
hexed
Placed under curse
- jinxedAfflicted with misfortune
- star-crossedDoomed by destiny
- ill-omenedPortending misfortune ahead
blighted · damned · accursed · bane · afflicted · bedeviled · tainted · benighted · luckless · hapless
condemned
Officially declared unfit
damnation · perdition · ruination · destruction · downfall · undoing · ruin · consigned · cast out · reprobate
foredoombless
Confer favor upon
promise · anoint · favor · elect · consecrate
foredoomreprieve
Postponement of punishment
salvation · deliverance · rescue · redemption · spare