Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Governed by fate; predetermined.
- adj. Condemned to death or destruction; doomed: the fated city of Troy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Determined or consigned by fate; doomed; destined: as, he was fated to a violent end.
- Regulated by fate; awarded, appointed, or set apart by fate.
- Exempted by fate.
- Invested with the power of determining fates or destinies.
Wiktionary
- adj. Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.
- v. rare Simple past tense and past participle of fate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Decreed by fate; destined; doomed.
- obsolete Invested with the power of determining destiny.
- Obs. or R. Exempted by fate.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate
Examples
“Yet, it appears our paths are once again fated not to cross.”
“I'll admit, I used to read some fated to be mated stories, and I liked them at the time, but I'm not sure if I was ever really sold on the idea of fated mates even then.”
“He proceeded to walk up the glen, resolving that their place of combat should be in the entrance of the Corri-nan-shian; both because the spot, lying under the reputation of being haunted, was very little frequented, and also because he regarded it as a place which to him might be termed fated, and which he therefore resolved should witness his death or victory.”
“But is this new vehicle of unconstrained expression fated to come under the thumb of the powers that be?”
“But it did contain a message that would change two people forever, two people who would otherwise never have met, and for this reason it could be called a fated message.”
“Old friendships might dissolve while new, possibly "fated" alliances form.”
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“We Americans, said Cheney, would rather not have Russia as an enemy -- it is not "fated" to happen.”
“Radiating out from Watanuki and Yuko's initial encounter are a host of expected and unexpected consequences - since nothing in life, according to the logic of the narrative, can be attributed to coincidence, everything is "fated" to happen.”
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“What was his role in getting not only Claire but also Jack and his own corpse on the plane that was "fated" to crash on the island?”
“It is not that Freud was somehow "fated" to become the world's first psychoanalyst.”
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