If you say that something was predestined, you mean that it could not have been prevented or changed because it had already been decided by a power such as God or fate.
His was not a political career predestined from birth.
He wished that he could be like other children instead of pursuing his lonely predestinedpath.
Synonyms: fated, predetermined, preordained, meant More Synonyms of predestined
predestined in British English
(ˌpriːˈdɛstɪnd)
adjective
foreordained or determined beforehand
He wished that he could be like other children instead of pursuing his lonely predestinedpath.
His was not a political career predestined from birth.
Examples of 'predestined' in a sentence
predestined
Alex's is predestined, of course, and lucky for him he's able to stand up to it.
Gaskin, Catherine THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN (2001)
His future at McClintock-Clayton was predestined, but what he would do with his life personally was not.
Gaskin, Catherine THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN (2001)
(adjective)
Definition
determined in advance by God
His career was not predestined from birth.
Synonyms
fated
I was fated never to get there.
predetermined
our predetermined fate
preordained
the belief that our actions are governed by a preordained destiny
meant
doomed
The attempt was doomed from the start.
foreordained
pre-elected
predestinated
Additional synonyms
in the sense of doomed
The attempt was doomed from the start.
Synonyms
hopeless,
condemned,
ill-fated,
fated,
unhappy,
unfortunate,
cursed,
unlucky,
blighted,
hapless,
bedevilled,
luckless,
ill-starred,
star-crossed,
ill-omened
in the sense of predetermined
our predetermined fate
Synonyms
fated,
predestined,
preordained,
meant,
doomed,
foreordained,
pre-elected,
predestinated
in the sense of preordained
Definition
decreed or determined in advance
the belief that our actions are governed by a preordained destiny