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[syn: doomed, fated]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fated \Fat"ed\, p. p. & a.
1. Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to
rule a factious people.
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One midnight
Fated to the purpose. --Shak.
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2. Invested with the power of determining destiny. [Obs.]
"The fated sky." --Shak.
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3. Exempted by fate. [Obs. or R.] --Dryden.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fated
adj 1: (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate;
"doomed to unhappiness"; "fated to be the scene of
Kennedy's assassination" [syn: doomed, fated]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "fated":
appointed, approaching, certain, coming, cursed, damned, decided,
decreed, desired, destinal, destined, determined, devoted, doomed,
emergent, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fateful, fatidic,
foredoomed, foreordained, forthcoming, future, futuristic,
hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, in store, in the cards,
indefeasible, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable,
inexorable, inflexible, irresistible, irrevocable, later, marked,
nearing, necessary, ordained, planned, plotted, predestined,
predetermined, predicted, preordained, probable, projected,
prophesied, prospective, relentless, resistless, sure,
sure as death, sure as fate, to come, to-be, ultimate, unavoidable,
uncontrollable, undeflectable, unpreventable, unstoppable,
unyielding, written