fated

The word “fated” has 2 syllables: fa-ted

It's pronounced as /ˈfeɪ.tɪd/


What is synonym and antonym for fated?

In the thesaurus, “fated” has 52 synonyms and 17 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for fated

  • anticipated
  • augured
  • boded
  • certain
  • condemned
  • decided
  • decided by fate
  • definite
  • destined
  • divined
  • doomed
  • forboded
  • foreboded
  • forecast
  • forecasted
  • foredoomed
  • foreknew
  • foreordained
  • foresaw
  • foretold
  • imminent
  • impending
  • in the stars
  • ineluctable
  • ineludible
  • inescapable
  • inevitable
  • inexorable
  • likely
  • necessary
  • ordained
  • portended
  • possible
  • preconceived
  • predestinated
  • predestined
  • predetermined
  • predicted
  • prejudged
  • preordained
  • presaged
  • probable
  • prognosticated
  • prophesied
  • relentless
  • sentenced
  • settled
  • sure
  • unavoidable
  • unescapable
  • unremitting
  • unstoppable

Antonyms for fated

  • avoidable
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • evadable
  • improbable
  • preventable
  • preventible
  • questionable
  • shaky
  • uncertain
  • unclear
  • undecided
  • undependable
  • unlikely
  • unreliable
  • unsettled
  • unsure

Meanings of fated

  • verb
    1. To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
  • adjective
    1. Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.

Example Sentences

  • They seemed fated to meet, no matter the circumstances.
  • The mission was fated to fail from the beginning.
  • Some believe we are all fated to follow a certain path.
  • He felt fated to become a leader despite his doubts.
  • Their love story was fated, written in the stars.

On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to fated, such as: anticipated, augured, avoidable, boded, certain, condemned, decided.

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nailed

  • abducted
  • abiding
  • absolute
  • adjusted
  • affirmed
  • airtight
  • anchored
  • apprehended
  • arrested
  • assured
  • at a standstill
  • at rest
  • attached
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  • blew the whistle on
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  • brick-wall
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  • bunged
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  • bust
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  • butted
  • buttoned-down
  • calm
  • caned
  • captured
  • categorical
  • caught
  • cemented
  • choking
  • chopped
  • cinched
  • clapped
  • clapt
  • clarified
  • clasped
  • clear
  • clear-cut
  • clinched
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  • clobbered
  • clocked
  • closed
  • clouted
  • clubbed
  • clumped
  • clutched
  • collared
  • committed
  • concluded
  • confined
  • conked
  • copped
  • cornered
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  • cracked
  • cramping
  • creamed
  • crushing
  • cudgeled
  • cudgelled
  • cuffed
  • cutting
  • debunked
  • decided
  • decked
  • deep-rooted
  • defined
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  • demonstrated
  • destined
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  • disclosed
  • discredited
  • disproved
  • distinct
  • divulged
  • drubbed
  • dumped
  • durable
  • embedded
  • emphatic
  • enchained
  • ended
  • enduring
  • enmeshed
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  • entangled
  • entrapped
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  • even
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  • fast
  • fastened
  • fated
  • felled
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  • flailed
  • flicked
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  • illuminated
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  • impenetrable
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  • indisputable
  • inert
  • insured
  • interned
  • invariable
  • iron
  • jabbed
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  • kicked
  • kidnaped
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  • kneed
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  • laced
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  • landed
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  • lasting
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  • motionless
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  • quiescent
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  • ran in
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  • runaway
  • safe
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  • sapped
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  • skulled
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  • sound
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  • stabbed
  • stabile
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  • staunch
  • staying put
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  • unalterable
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  • uncomfortable
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  • undeniable
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  • unfluctuating
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  • unmistakable
  • unmovable
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  • unquestionable
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  • unveiled
  • unwavering
  • walloped
  • watertight
  • welded
  • well-built
  • well-founded
  • whacked
  • whaled
  • whipped
  • wrested
  • zapped

unavoidable

  • certain
  • compulsory
  • decided
  • definite
  • destined
  • fated
  • foreordained
  • impending
  • in the bag
  • in the cards
  • ineluctable
  • ineludible
  • inescapable
  • inevasible
  • inevitable
  • inexorable
  • likely
  • locked up
  • necessary
  • obligatory
  • on the cards
  • open and shut
  • possible
  • predestined
  • predetermined
  • preordained
  • probable
  • relentless
  • set
  • settled
  • sure
  • unescapable
  • unremitting
  • unstoppable

necessary

  • advantage
  • all-important
  • assured
  • basic
  • binding
  • bottom-line
  • cardinal
  • central
  • certain
  • chief
  • coercive
  • compelling
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  • condition
  • consequential
  • critical
  • crucial
  • de rigueur
  • decided
  • decisive
  • definite
  • demand
  • demanded
  • desideration
  • desideratum
  • destined
  • edge
  • elementary
  • enforced
  • essential
  • exigent
  • expedient
  • fated
  • forced
  • foreordained
  • fundamental
  • imminent
  • imperative
  • important
  • in the bag
  • in the cards
  • incumbent
  • incumbent on
  • indispensable
  • ineluctable
  • ineludible
  • inerrant
  • inescapable
  • inevasible
  • inevitable
  • inexorable
  • infallible
  • insistent
  • integral
  • involuntary
  • key
  • likely
  • major
  • mandatory
  • material
  • meaningful
  • momentous
  • must
  • must-have
  • name of game
  • necessitous
  • necessity
  • need
  • needed
  • needful
  • nonelective
  • obligatory
  • of the essence
  • on the cards
  • organic
  • paramount
  • peremptory
  • persistent
  • plus
  • possible
  • precondition
  • predestined
  • predetermined
  • preordained
  • prerequisite
  • pressing
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  • principal
  • probable
  • quintessential
  • relentless
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  • requirement
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  • returnless
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  • sure
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  • urgent
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  • weighty
  • wish

necessitated

  • apprenticed
  • articled
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  • pressed
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  • restrained
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  • under compulsion
  • under necessity
  • urged
  • wanted
  • warranted

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