☠️ To make deadly 🔮 To see as fate

to fatalize

9.8

To think something will happen and cannot be changed

verb
/ˈfeɪtəˌlaɪz/

: destinar

It is unhelpful to fatalize every setback instead of looking for solutions.

Examples

Many people fatalize their failures as if they were destined to fail.
Writers sometimes fatalize their characters' destinies to create a sense of inevitability.
Some philosophers fatalize all events as inevitable and beyond human control.
He tends to fatalize every setback he faces.
Some philosophers fatalize all events as inevitable and beyond human control.
Writers sometimes fatalize their characters' destinies to create a sense of inevitability.
It is unhelpful to fatalize every setback instead of looking for solutions.

Synonyms

to doom

vsto fatalize

33 5.8

Cause something to fail or be ruined

describes inevitability rather than actively causing the bad outcome

to destine

vsto fatalize

2 5.7

To decide that someone or something will have a certain future

is presented as inevitable rather than actively decided

to foredoom

vsto fatalize

Archaic

1 9.9

To make someone certain to fail or end badly

portrays inevitability without moral condemnation

Antonyms

to empower

173 4.2

Give someone the power and confidence to do something

Surface Forms

fatalize infinitive

fatalized past

fatalized past participle

fatalizing present participle

fatalizes third person singular

Morphology

fatalize = fatal (semi-transparent) = fatal + ize

Although formed from 'fatal' + '-ize', the sense 'to regard as determined by fate' relies on an older 'fate'-related sense of 'fatal' that modern learners may not associate with the adjective's common 'deadly' meaning.

Etymology

Fatalize also links to fate ('destiny') and fatal, so to fatalize something is to treat it as fixed or inevitable, as if fate will make it happen.