predetermined
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5.3
- adjective
- /ˌpriːdɪˈtɜːrmɪnd/
- He's sort of playing a role, and the contours of the role are predetermined by someone other than him.
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Watch on YouTubeAccording to Democritus, they move in predetermined courses.
- According to Democritus, they move in predetermined courses.
- It's not about some pre chosen predetermined terminus.
- And so I'm like, this is all, you know, predetermined stuff.
- And maybe, you know, so, so nothing is predetermined.
- Like how much do you, how much is the whole thing like predetermined?
- He's sort of playing a role, and the contours of the role are predetermined by someone other than him.
- So being in a play, everything was predetermined.
- Wrestling's not it's predetermined, it's choreographed.
- Now this outlet timer will turn on or off anything you plug into it at a predetermined time of day or night.
- Like there's things that I get to do because people recognize my face or have a a predetermined opinion of me even before we meet.
- So it does matter how much you eat and what you eat to some degree, but your basic numbers are genetically predetermined.
Examples
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Now this outlet timer will turn on or off anything you plug into it at a predetermined time of day or night.
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The schedule was set with a predetermined start and end time to ensure everything ran smoothly.
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This machine R has a fixed predetermined size.
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They have predetermined your success level based off where you come from and the people who were like you before you got there.
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According to Democritus, they move in predetermined courses.
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The curriculum eats up the swimmers who don't swim in predetermined ways.
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Those nodules are predetermined flower buds the year before the plant actually determines which branches it's going to pick to flower on.
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Judas's betrayal was not a random act, but predetermined with its own mysterious place in the economy of redemption.
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Their predetermined seating arrangements were designed to foster collaboration among team members.
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She followed a predetermined path during the experiment to maintain consistency in her results.
Synonyms
503
1.0
Arranged before it happens on purpose
155
4.1
Sure to happen or meant to be sent to a certain place
31
1.6
Placed in a planned order
16
4.6
Already decided and certain to happen
8
3.9
Set in advance before use, often by the maker
7
3.4
Planned before it happens
5
7.7
Fate or a higher power decides a person's life in advance
5
3.3
Arranged before something happens
1
4.2
Decided or arranged before something happens
1
9.9
Decided before it happens and cannot be changed, often because of fate or a god
1
9.9
Already decided before it happens and cannot be changed, often by fate or God
1
6.3
Chosen in advance for a particular use
1
9.1
Arranged or agreed before someone carries it out
1
9.9
Planned in advance, often to do something illegal
1
8.6
A process or system whose result is fixed before it happens
1
6.5
Made before use by following a set recipe, like a cream or liquid
Antonyms
How Predetermined
Surface Forms
Morphology
predetermined = predetermine (transparent) = pre + determine + ed
The adjective is a regular past-participial form of 'predetermine' and keeps the same core meaning of having been decided in advance.
Etymology
Predetermined is made of pre- 'before' and determine 'to decide', so it literally means 'decided before'. That's why something predetermined (like a time or plan) is set in advance and not left to chance.