to predestine

Examples

• All

• People with a certain genetic mutation are predestined to develop early-onset Alzheimer's.

  Blog text (19)

• I believe that each of us are predestined to walk a path in life.

  Shadows in the Sun (2005)

• Oil and other natural resources do not predestine all developing countries to failure.

  Academic text (2004)

• Does that mean that I had to be in that spot at that time because I was predestined to be hit by that?

• We have, like those in Israel, been predestined to be saved.

  Blog text (11)

• Nothing predestined me to the career that was mine.

  Academic text (2010)

• Samuel Frederick Smith was predestined for success.

  Sam Smith: Dreams Come True (2015)

• Whatever was going to happen here couldn't be stopped; it was likely predestined.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Persons with low levels of mastery hold the opposite belief that their future is predestined and cannot be changed.

  Academic text (2005)

• Many believe that our futures are predestined by forces beyond our control.

Synonyms

D

to destine

vsto predestine

163 5.7

To decide that someone or something will have a certain future

is an advance determination often framed as fate or intention

P

to predetermine

vsto predestine

23 5.8

Decide or make a result likely before it happens

is tied to destiny or divine intent rather than mere influence

P

to preordain

vsto predestine

8 8.8

To decide or arrange something before it happens, often by fate

is about an advance decision often linked to divine will

P

to preset

vsto predestine

3 3.9

To set something before you need to use it

is a small technical preparation not a decision about fate or higher will

P

to predefine

vsto predestine

3 5.1

Decide and set something before it is needed

is an advance determination but not necessarily fated or divine

P

to preselect

vsto predestine

3 3.7

Choose something in advance

is simply a prior choice not implying fate or higher will

F

to foreordain

vsto predestine

• Formal

1 9.9

Decide before it happens, often by a higher power

is an advance decision but not always described as supernatural

P

to predestinate

vsto predestine

• Formal

1 9.9

Decide in advance that something will happen, often by fate or God

is a general advance decision usually described as fate

P

to preassign

vsto predestine

1 5.8

To give people tasks or seats before they are needed

is broader involving prior determination rather than specific allocation

P

to prespecify

vsto predestine

1 7.8

Decide or say something before an event starts

is about prior decision in general not exact technical detail

P

to predesignate

vsto predestine

8.0

To choose something in advance for a certain use, like seats or funds

focuses on a prior decision often linked to divine will

How Predetermined

to predestine

6 9.2

to predetermine

23 5.8

to prearrange

8 4.1

to decide

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology