fate

The word “fate” has 1 syllable: fate

It's pronounced as /feɪt/


What is synonym and antonym for fate?

In the thesaurus, “fate” has 126 synonyms and 37 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for fate along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for fate

  • accident
  • afterclap
  • aftereffect
  • afterglow
  • aftermath
  • aftershock
  • annihilation
  • anticipate
  • assassination
  • augur
  • backwash
  • blowback
  • bode
  • break
  • by-product
  • casualty
  • chance
  • child
  • circumstance
  • conclusion
  • condemn
  • consequence
  • corollary
  • cup
  • curtains
  • death
  • decease
  • demise
  • denouement
  • destination
  • destine
  • destiny
  • destruction
  • development
  • dissolution
  • divine
  • divine will
  • doom
  • echo
  • effect
  • end
  • ending
  • execution
  • exit
  • expiration
  • expiry
  • extermination
  • fallout
  • fatality
  • forbode
  • forebode
  • forecast
  • foredoom
  • foreknow
  • foreordain
  • foresee
  • foretell
  • fortune
  • fruit
  • future
  • grave
  • great divide
  • handwriting on the wall
  • hap
  • happenchance
  • happenstance
  • hazard
  • horoscope
  • implication
  • inescapableness
  • issue
  • karma
  • killing
  • kismet
  • lot
  • luck
  • martyrdom
  • massacre
  • matter of course
  • moirai
  • nemesis
  • offshoot
  • ordain
  • outcome
  • outgrowth
  • passage
  • passing
  • portend
  • portion
  • precipitate
  • preconceive
  • predestinate
  • predestination
  • predestine
  • predetermine
  • predict
  • prejudge
  • preordain
  • presage
  • product
  • prognosticate
  • prophesy
  • providence
  • quietus
  • ramification
  • repercussion
  • result
  • resultant
  • ripple
  • ruin
  • self-destruction
  • self-murder
  • self-slaughter
  • sentence
  • sequel
  • sequence
  • side effect
  • side reaction
  • slaughter
  • sleep
  • spin-off
  • stars
  • suicide
  • termination
  • upshot
  • wheel of fortune

Antonyms for fate

  • antecedent
  • base
  • basis
  • beginning
  • birth
  • causation
  • cause
  • commencement
  • consideration
  • creation
  • determinant
  • existence
  • factor
  • foundation
  • genesis
  • ground
  • groundwork
  • impetus
  • incentive
  • inspiration
  • instigation
  • life
  • misfortune
  • mother
  • nativity
  • occasion
  • opening
  • origin
  • origination
  • reason
  • rise
  • root
  • source
  • spring
  • start
  • stimulus
  • whole

Meanings of fate

  • noun
    1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
    2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
    3. An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
    4. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
    5. Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
  • verb
    1. To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

Example Sentences

  • She believed it was fate that brought them together.
  • The hero accepted his fate with courage and dignity.
  • No one can escape their fate, no matter how hard they try.
  • The villagers feared the storm would decide their fate.
  • He left everything to fate, refusing to make a decision.

On this page you'll find 163 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to fate, such as: accident, afterclap, aftereffect, afterglow, aftermath, aftershock, annihilation.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

karma

  • air
  • ambiance
  • ambience
  • aroma
  • atmosphere
  • attribute
  • aura
  • aureola
  • aureole
  • character
  • characteristic
  • climate
  • color
  • fate
  • feel
  • feeling
  • flavor
  • genius loci
  • halo
  • illusion
  • image
  • kismet
  • mark
  • mood
  • mystique
  • nimbus
  • note
  • notion
  • odor
  • overtone
  • patina
  • peculiarity
  • picture
  • power
  • property
  • romance
  • semblance
  • sensation
  • sense
  • smell
  • spirit
  • suggestion
  • temper
  • tone
  • trait
  • vibrations

backwash

  • afterclap
  • aftereffect
  • afterglow
  • aftermath
  • aftershock
  • blowback
  • by-product
  • child
  • conclusion
  • consequence
  • corollary
  • denouement
  • development
  • echo
  • effect
  • fallout
  • fate
  • fruit
  • implication
  • issue
  • matter of course
  • offshoot
  • outcome
  • outgrowth
  • precipitate
  • product
  • ramification
  • repercussion
  • result
  • resultant
  • ripple
  • sequel
  • sequence
  • side effect
  • side reaction
  • spin-off
  • upshot
  • wake

ill

  • Cimmerian
  • a wreck
  • abominable
  • abomination
  • abuse
  • abusively
  • abysmal
  • accident
  • achy
  • acrimonious
  • adverse
  • adversity
  • affection
  • afflicted
  • affliction
  • aggressively
  • ail
  • ailing
  • ailment
  • airsick
  • anathema
  • antagonistic
  • assertively
  • atrocious
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • attack
  • awful
  • bad
  • badness
  • baleful
  • balefulness
  • baneful
  • bastard
  • below par
  • black
  • bleak
  • blow
  • body blow
  • bout
  • brutal
  • brutally
  • brutishly
  • bug
  • bum
  • bummed
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • by no means
  • calamity
  • callously
  • cancer
  • canker
  • cantankerous
  • carsick
  • casualty
  • cataclysm
  • catastrophe
  • challenged
  • cheerless
  • cheesy
  • chill
  • circumstance
  • cloudy
  • coarse
  • cold
  • cold-bloodedly
  • comfortless
  • common
  • complaint
  • complication
  • condition
  • contagion
  • contagious
  • contagious disease
  • contagium
  • corruption
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • cross
  • cruddy
  • cruelty
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • curse
  • cut-rate
  • damage
  • damaging
  • damnable
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • darkening
  • darkness
  • deadly
  • debauchery
  • debilitated
  • debility
  • decay
  • decidedly
  • decrepit
  • decrepitude
  • defeat
  • defective
  • deficient
  • degeneracy
  • deleterious
  • deplorable
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • destiny
  • destruction
  • destructive
  • determinedly
  • detestable
  • detrimental
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • diabolism
  • dim
  • dire
  • direful
  • disabled
  • disappointment
  • disaster
  • disastrous
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • disease
  • diseased
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • disorder
  • disordered
  • disrespectful
  • dissatisfactory
  • distemper
  • distemperature
  • distress
  • disturbing
  • dizzy
  • doom
  • doomy
  • down
  • down with
  • dreadful
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dreich
  • egregious
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • enormity
  • epidemic
  • evil
  • evildoing
  • evilness
  • execrable
  • failure
  • fake
  • fatal
  • fate
  • faulty
  • feeble
  • feebleness
  • feeling awful
  • feeling rotten
  • feeling terrible
  • fever
  • feverish
  • fiendishness
  • firmly
  • fit
  • fizzle
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • foreboding
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • fragile
  • frail
  • frailness
  • from hunger
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gnarly
  • godforsaken
  • got the bug
  • gray
  • green
  • grey
  • grimly
  • gross
  • gruffly
  • halt
  • hard
  • hard-heartedly
  • hardly
  • hardship
  • harm
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • harshly
  • hateful
  • hazardous
  • heartlessly
  • heinousness
  • hopeless
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • hostile
  • hurt
  • hurtful
  • hypochondriac
  • hypochondriacal
  • ill-boding
  • ill-fated
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-starred
  • illness
  • immorality
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • impertinent
  • inadequate
  • inauspicious
  • incapacitated
  • indecency
  • indisposed
  • indisposition
  • infection
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inferior
  • infirm
  • infirmity
  • inhumanely
  • inhumanly
  • inimical
  • iniquitous
  • iniquitousness
  • iniquity
  • injurious
  • injury
  • insensately
  • insensitively
  • insidious
  • insufficient
  • insult
  • invalid
  • jeopardizing
  • junky
  • killer
  • knock
  • lacking
  • laid low
  • lame
  • lameness
  • lesser
  • letdown
  • lethal
  • light-headed
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • lot
  • lousy
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • lugubrious
  • malady
  • malaise
  • malefaction
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • matter
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • menacing
  • mercilessly
  • minatory
  • misadventure
  • mischance
  • mischief
  • mischievous
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • misery
  • misfortune
  • mishap
  • morbid
  • morose
  • murky
  • nasty
  • nauseated
  • nauseous
  • near
  • never
  • niggardly
  • no
  • no way
  • nocent
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • none
  • nonsuccess
  • nothing
  • nothing doing
  • noway
  • nowhere
  • nowise
  • noxious
  • obdurately
  • odious
  • off
  • ominous
  • on no account
  • on sick list
  • oppressively
  • out of sorts
  • pain
  • paltry
  • parlous
  • pathetic
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • perversion
  • pervertedness
  • pest
  • pestiferous
  • pestilence
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pip
  • pitilessly
  • plague
  • plutonian
  • poisonous
  • poor
  • poorly
  • portentous
  • portion
  • prejudicial
  • punk
  • qualmish
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • queer
  • queerish
  • reprehensible
  • resolutely
  • risky
  • rot
  • rotten
  • roughly
  • rubbishy
  • ruinous
  • run down
  • run-down
  • running a temperature
  • ruthlessly
  • satanism
  • saturnine
  • savagely
  • scanty
  • scarcely
  • scurrility
  • scurrilous
  • scurrilousness
  • seasick
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • sepulchral
  • setback
  • severely
  • shabby
  • shaky
  • sham
  • shoddy
  • short
  • sick
  • sick as a dog
  • sickened
  • sickish
  • sickliness
  • sickly
  • sickness
  • sin
  • sinfulness
  • sinister
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrow
  • sour
  • spare
  • spell
  • squalor
  • squeamish
  • star-crossed
  • sternly
  • stiffly
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • strongly
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • suffering
  • sullen
  • sunless
  • surly
  • symptomatic
  • syndrome
  • taboo
  • tabu
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • terrible
  • threatening
  • toughly
  • tragedy
  • trashy
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • troubled
  • tyrannically
  • unacceptable
  • uncharitably
  • under par
  • under the weather
  • unfavorable
  • unfeelingly
  • unfortunate
  • unfriendly
  • ungracious
  • unhappiness
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthiness
  • unhealthy
  • unkind
  • unlucky
  • unmercifully
  • unpleasantness
  • unpromising
  • unpropitious
  • unsafe
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsettled
  • unsound
  • unsoundness
  • unsparingly
  • unspeakable
  • unwell
  • unwellness
  • unwholesome
  • upset
  • useless
  • valueless
  • venomous
  • viciously
  • vile
  • vileness
  • villainous
  • villainy
  • wack
  • wanting
  • weak
  • weakly
  • weakness
  • wicked
  • wickedness
  • woe
  • woozy
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

effect

  • achieve
  • action
  • actualize
  • actuate
  • advance
  • afterclap
  • aftereffect
  • afterglow
  • aftermath
  • aftershock
  • appointments
  • authority
  • backlash
  • backwash
  • beget
  • begin
  • belongings
  • blowback
  • breed
  • bring
  • bring about
  • bring forth
  • bring off
  • bring on
  • buy
  • by-product
  • can of worms
  • carry through
  • catalyze
  • causatum
  • cause
  • chain reaction
  • chattels
  • child
  • clout
  • collateral
  • command
  • complete
  • conceive
  • conclude
  • conclusion
  • consequence
  • consummate
  • corollary
  • create
  • cultivate
  • decide
  • denouement
  • determine
  • develop
  • development
  • do
  • do a number
  • do the job
  • do the trick
  • do to a T
  • domination
  • dominion
  • draw on
  • drift
  • duds
  • echo
  • effectuate
  • efficacy
  • efficiency
  • enact
  • encourage
  • end
  • end product
  • enforce
  • enforcement
  • engender
  • essence
  • establish
  • estate
  • event
  • eventuality
  • execute
  • execution
  • fact
  • fallout
  • fate
  • father
  • fixtures
  • flak
  • follow through
  • follow-up
  • force
  • forward
  • foster
  • found
  • fruit
  • fulfill
  • furnishings
  • further
  • gear
  • generate
  • get across
  • get to
  • give rise to
  • goods
  • holdings
  • impact
  • implement
  • implementation
  • implication
  • import
  • importance
  • imprint
  • inaugurate
  • induce
  • influence
  • initiate
  • innovate
  • institute
  • introduce
  • invoke
  • issue
  • launch
  • make
  • make it
  • make waves
  • mark
  • mastery
  • matter of course
  • meaning
  • movables
  • moveables
  • nourish
  • nurture
  • occasion
  • offshoot
  • outcome
  • outgrowth
  • paraphernalia
  • perform
  • personal effects
  • personal property
  • personalty
  • pioneer
  • plunder
  • possession
  • power
  • precipitate
  • prestige
  • procure
  • produce
  • product
  • promote
  • prompt
  • property
  • pull
  • pull it off
  • purport
  • purpose
  • pursuance
  • put across
  • ramification
  • reaction
  • reality
  • realize
  • reflex
  • render
  • repercussion
  • response
  • result
  • resultant
  • ripple
  • secure
  • sell
  • sense
  • sequel
  • sequence
  • set
  • set up
  • side effect
  • side reaction
  • significance
  • sovereignty
  • sovranty
  • spawn
  • spin-off
  • start
  • strength
  • stuff
  • supremacy
  • sway
  • tangibles
  • tenor
  • things
  • treasures
  • turn out
  • turn the trick
  • unzip
  • upshot
  • use
  • validity
  • valuables
  • vigor
  • waves
  • weight
  • work
  • yield

fallout

  • afterclap
  • aftereffect
  • afterglow
  • aftermath
  • aftershock
  • altercate
  • argue
  • argufy
  • backwash
  • bandy words
  • bicker
  • blowback
  • brabble
  • brawl
  • butt heads
  • by-product
  • cavil
  • challenge
  • child
  • clash
  • come out
  • conclusion
  • consequence
  • consider
  • contend
  • contest
  • controvert
  • corollary
  • dare
  • debate
  • defy
  • denouement
  • develop
  • development
  • discuss
  • dispute
  • echo
  • effect
  • emerge
  • evolve
  • fate
  • fight
  • fruit
  • fuss
  • germinate
  • hassle
  • implication
  • issue
  • jar
  • kick
  • lock horns
  • mix it up
  • nitpick
  • object
  • offshoot
  • outcome
  • outgrowth
  • pan out
  • play out
  • precipitate
  • product
  • protest
  • prove
  • quarrel
  • quibble
  • radioactive dust
  • radioactive waste
  • ramification
  • repercussion
  • result
  • resultant
  • ripple
  • row
  • scrap
  • sequel
  • sequence
  • shake out
  • side effect
  • side reaction
  • spat
  • spin-off
  • squabble
  • tangle
  • tiff
  • turn out
  • unfold
  • upshot
  • work out
  • wrangle

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