PREDESTINED Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in destined

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verb

past tense of predestine

as in doomed

to determine the fate of in advance our victory in the tournament was seemingly predestined

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Adjective

In retrospect, Sumner seemed predestined to become a famous abolitionist lawyer. — Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026 Christo and Jeanne-Claude disregarded all threats of legal action, directing Running Fence to complete its predestined voyage into the sea. — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025

Verb

Awaiting in a World Cup semifinal is France, a team that has looked almost predestined to raise another World Cup trophy. — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 11 July 2026 Science, of course, struggles to prove whether that’s predestined in their genes, though some studies suggest that some tendency toward hoarding—put another way, collecting to excess—is heritable. — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026 At the same time, nothing is predestined. — Ray Dalio, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026 Getty Images All of it can feel predestined. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 17 Jan. 2026 There’s a generic quality both to singer-songwriter Michaelson’s score (a combination of folk and Broadway pop) and to a romance that seems almost mystically predestined. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026 The Lionel Messi-Lamine Yamal connection For believers in the soccer gods, Lamine Yamal's ascent to the upper echelons of the sport could almost seem predestined with Lamine anointed by a Barça icon — Lionel Messi. — Nathalie Sommer, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025 Ferrari Given his name, Adam Driver was seemingly predestined to play the man behind the world's most prestigious sports car. — Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestined

Adjective

The response can be designed into the material and the way its structure is printed, allowing a flat or compact object to transform into a predetermined configuration.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
The agency’s medical focus developed through experimentation rather than a predetermined specialization.

— Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of predetermined

Verb

As things stand, the imperial family will continue as long as 19-year-old prince Hisahito, destined for the throne, one day has a son.

— Séraphine Roger, Vanity Fair, 26 Aug. 2026
Stage six’s partly-gravel climb up the Puerto El Bartalo will surely be too tough for him, but Saturday’s flat finish in Xeraco already seems destined to end in a Brennan victory.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of destined

Adjective

Her foray into television, which started in 2017, was not exactly foreordained.

— Tammy LaGorce, New York Times, 14 May 2024
With all of those movements, when the central issue was really crystallized as a choice between what is clearly right and just, and what is clearly unjust and wrong and deadly and dangerous, then the outcome becomes foreordained.

— Cara Buckley, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024

Definition of foreordained

Verb

Kelly finds the public’s current craving for unique genre storytelling encouraging, but feels that like most trends, it may be doomed to impermanence.

— Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
As a result, the Swift observatory is doomed to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere later this year.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of doomed

Adjective

Sunlight Place the plant in a sunny window, south-facing if possible, and give it four to six hours of sunlight each day.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2026
Carley Garner, a commodity market strategist and broker at DeCarley Trading, said smaller futures and oil ETFs such as the United States Oil Fund (ticker USO) have made speculation possible for traders at almost any level of experience or funding.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of possible

Adjective

That description equally well applies to our probable timeline on this planet, the way things are progressing.

— Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
The more probable future is a heterogeneous computing environment where classical high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum processors collaborate.

— Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of probable

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