Fated
['feɪtɪd]
Definition
(p. p. & a.) Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.
(p. p. & a.) Invested with the power of determining destiny.
(p. p. & a.) Exempted by fate.
Edited by Ahmed
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Doomed, destined, appointed.
Typist: Willie
Examples
- Other vengeance than mine had followed that fated man from the theatre to his own door--from his own door to his refuge in Paris. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Far up in a sheltered nook, under the red cliffs, twelve graves had been dug in the soft sand, and in these were the ill-fated seamen laid. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The attachment between them led to the ill-fated marriage, of which I was the offspring. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Is it not your duty to yourself to forget this ill-fated attachment? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But it was not fated that I should sleep that night. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I entered the cabin, where lay the remains of my ill-fated and admirable friend. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- And was he fated to pass away in this knowledge, this one process of frost-knowledge, death by perfect cold? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But everything now was as if fated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Front-de-Boeuf himself opened the scene by thus addressing his ill-fated captive. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I seem to be fated to say or do something awkward, before that unlucky girl. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This was the world she lived in, these were the standards by which she was fated to be measured! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Some of them did their best to carry out these militarist instructions at the expense of the ill-fated Belgians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He felt, she was compelled to him, she was fated to come into contact with him, must have the seeing him and knowing him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Willie