preordained
Settled before happening
Preordained means determined or decreed in advance, especially by divine will or fate.
What is preordained was settled before events unfolded: Some believe our fates are preordained.
The word suggests inevitability—that outcomes were fixed from the start and couldn't have been otherwise: The election result felt preordained after the scandal broke.
Fixed by fate
- predeterminedEstablished beforehand
- fatedDetermined by destiny
- foreordainedDecided in advance unavoidably
- kismetPreordained future outcome
providence · predestination · doom · lot · fortune · karma · decree · foreordination
Foretelling of future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- foretoldPredicted future events
- seerOne who envisions futures
- omenProphetic indicator
augury · divination · harbinger · revelation · prognostication · presage · portent · foreseen
Impossible to avoid
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
- certainFree from doubt
- imminentAbout to occur
- foregoneAlready certain beforehand
irrevocable · unalterable · fixed · ineluctable · unpreventable · irreversible · decided · sealed
Doctrine of causal necessity
- fatalismDoctrine of inevitable outcomes
- free willAutonomous choice capacity
- causalityCause-effect connection
- necessityIndispensable requirement
predetermination · teleology · election · foreknowledge · theodicy · libertarianism · hard determinism · causal chain
Formally ordered by authority
- providenceDivine protective care
- sacredWorthy of reverence
- theisticAccepting divine existence
- omniscientUnlimited in awareness
godly · blessed · holy · divine will · celestial · heavenly · almighty · sovereign
destined
Fixed by fate
- predeterminedEstablished beforehand
- fatedDetermined by destiny
- foreordainedDecided in advance unavoidably
kismet · providence · predestination · doom · lot · fortune · karma · decree · foreordination · inevitability
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
omen · augury · divination · harbinger · revelation · prognostication · presage · portent · foreseen · predicted
inescapable
Impossible to avoid
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
- certainFree from doubt
- imminentAbout to occur
foregone · irrevocable · unalterable · fixed · ineluctable · unpreventable · irreversible · decided · sealed · set in stone
determinism
Doctrine of causal necessity
- fatalismDoctrine of inevitable outcomes
- free willAutonomous choice capacity
- causalityCause-effect connection
necessity · predetermination · teleology · election · foreknowledge · theodicy · libertarianism · hard determinism · causal chain · mechanistic
decreed
Formally ordered by authority
- providenceDivine protective care
- sacredWorthy of reverence
- theisticAccepting divine existence
omniscient · godly · blessed · holy · divine will · celestial · heavenly · almighty · sovereign · scriptural
preordainedrandom
Occurring without pattern
accidental · chance · coincidental · fortuitous · haphazard
preordainedself-determined
Decided by oneself
voluntary · elective · willed · autonomous · self-directed
preordainedundetermined
Not yet established
uncertain · open-ended · contingent · unfixed · unpredetermined