fated

[ fey-tid ]
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adjective
  1. subject to, guided by, or predetermined by fate; destined.

Origin of fated

1
First recorded in 1595–1605; fate + -ed3

Other words from fated

  • un·fat·ed, adjective

Words Nearby fated

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How to use fated in a sentence

  • Republicans cast her ill-fated health care policy task force as a “shadow government.”

  • "It is ill-fated;" and Alessandro blamed himself for having forgotten her only association with the name.

    Ramona | Helen Hunt Jackson
  • How little did she realize the long drawn-out agony that was even then beginning for her sisters in that ill-fated entrenchment!

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy
  • Then we were again in motion, and the ill-fated town of Karinjah, now a heap of smouldering ruins, was soon far behind us.

    Confessions of a Thug | Philip Meadows Taylor
  • Strange calumnies still rest upon this queen, all of whose actions were fated to be misjudged.

    Catherine de' Medici | Honore de Balzac
  • I was one of the 109 Union officers who passed through the tunnel, and one of the ill-fated 48 that were retaken.

British Dictionary definitions for fated

fated

/ (ˈfeɪtɪd) /


adjective
  1. destined

  2. doomed to death or destruction

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