foreordained

Examples

• All

• However, the paper could just be a small part of a vast conspiracy to prevent China from reaching its foreordained status as the greatest, most powerful nation on earth.

  Blog text (18)

• All of this suffering, pain, and misery, mind you, to reach a foreordained moment when a self-aware creature finally appeared.

  Blog text (14)

• Part of it was down to the foreordained cycle of his humors, which had dumped him into the slough once again.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Committed as we are to a foreordained verdict of guilty, we can't help uncovering plenty of incriminating evidence, though clever attorneys will interpret it in various conflicting ways.

  Fiction book (2000)

• In this mood, the events of the morning unraveled before him as a series of foreordained steps that, culminating in desecration, had begun when his desperate offer of cash had persuaded the man in the fedora to sell him the Bierstadt he had promised to hold for someone else.

  Fiction book (1994)

• All are governed by their human nature, which was for him, as for many other eighteenth-century writers, a foreordained, immutable, and scientifically discoverable congeries of attitudes and propensities.

  Academic text (1992)

• The village folk felt that their fates were foreordained, as if a higher power had already decided their future long ago.

• He couldn't escape the feeling that their meeting was foreordained, a part of a greater plan that was beyond their understanding.

Synonyms

F

fated

vsforeordained

27 5.3

Certain to happen and not able to be changed

frames inevitability as a prior decision often beyond mere fate

P

planned

vsforeordained

26 1.0

Arranged before it happens on purpose

describes outcomes fixed by destiny or divine will, not by deliberate human plan

F

foregone

vsforeordained

16 4.6

Already decided and certain to happen

casts inevitability as caused before time, often by fate or divine will

D

destined

vsforeordained

6 4.1

Sure to happen or meant to be sent to a certain place

highlights being fixed beforehand by divine will rather than by plan

P

predestinate

vsforeordained

• Formal

1 9.9

Already decided before it happens and cannot be changed, often by fate or God

treats inevitability as general certainty rather than a religious cause

P

preplanned

vsforeordained

1 3.3

Arranged before something happens

signals unchangeable fate or divine decision rather than human preparation

P

predestined

vsforeordained

7.7

Fate or a higher power decides a person's life in advance

attributes inevitability specifically to fate or divine will

P

predeterministic

vsforeordained

• Specialized

8.6

A process or system whose result is fixed before it happens

focuses on inevitability from divine will rather than from prior conditions

P

predetermined

vsforeordained

5.3

Decided before it happens

stresses divine or fate reason and absolute unchangeability rather than mere arrangement

P

pre-established

vsforeordained

4.2

Decided or arranged before something happens

points to inevitability founded on fate or divine will rather than prior setup

P

prearranged

vsforeordained

3.4

Planned before it happens

refers to destiny or being fixed by fate rather than human planning

P

preconcerted

vsforeordained

9.1

Arranged or agreed before someone carries it out

means inevitability caused by fate or divine will, not by prior agreement

Antonyms

U

unforeseen

37 4.7

Not expected to happen

How Inevitable

foreordained

• Formal

1 9.9

expected

1.2

likely

∞ 1.0

possible

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology