What is another word for be destined?

Pronunciation: [biː dˈɛstɪnd] (IPA)

The phrase "be destined" implies that something has been predetermined or fated to happen in the future. There are several synonyms that can be used in its place, including "be predetermined," "be predestined," "be foreordained," "be ordained," and "be meant to be." These synonyms suggest that the outcome of a situation or event is inevitable and cannot be changed, as if it were written in the stars. To be destined is often associated with a sense of purpose or destiny, and implies that something was meant to happen or that everything happens for a reason.

What are the hypernyms for Be destined?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    be ordained, be fated, be predestined, be preordained, be foreordained, Be predetermined.

Famous quotes with Be destined

  • "That the people of America should be severed from Great Britain, even your fellow Congressionalists from the North would not be hardy enough yet to avow; but that this will certainly follow from the measures you have been induced by them to adopt, is obvious to every man who is permitted yet to think for himself. … see ye not that after some few years of civil broils all the fair settlements in the middle and southern colonies will be seized on by our more enterprising and restless fellow-colonists of the North? At first and for a while perhaps they may be contented to be the Dutch of America, i.e. to be our carriers and fishmongers, for which no doubt, as their sensible historian [] has observed, they seem to be destined by their situation, soil, and climate: but had so sagacious an observer foreseen that a time might come when all North America should be independent, he would, it is probable, have added to his other remark, that those his Northern brethren would then become also the Goths and Vandals of America."
    Jonathan Boucher
  • May not we then confidently pronounce that man happy who realizes complete goodness in action, and is adequately furnished with external goods? Or should we add, that he must also be destined to go on living not for any casual period but throughout a complete lifetime in the same manner, and to die accordingly, because the future is hidden from us, and we conceive happiness as an end, something utterly and absolutely final and complete? If this is so, we shall pronounce those of the living who possess and are destined to go on possessing the good things we have specified to be supremely blessed, though on the human scale of bliss.
    Aristotle

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