Synonyms for
Fate
Definition
the development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power
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Antonyms
Common collocations
- meet one's fate
- sealed fate
- cruel fate
- twist of fate
- fate worse than death
- fate intervened
- against all fate
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Usage note
Fate implies a predetermined course of events, often seen as beyond human control. It can have a neutral, positive (fortune), or negative (doom) connotation depending on context.
Example sentences
- Fate brought us together.
- It was their fate to never meet again.
- Her fate was in the hands of the judge.
- He accepted his fate and carried on.
- Fate can be both kind and cruel.
Quotes
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me! - Charles Dickens
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. - Lemony Snicket
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. - Elizabeth Bowen