fate

  • (noun): The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
  • (noun): The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
  • (noun): An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
  • (noun): Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
  • (noun): Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
  • (verb): To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
  • Accept your fate.
  • The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.