fate
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
Types & categories
- happening hypernym
- inevitable hyponym
- karma hyponym
- kismet hyponym
- predestination hyponym
- doom hyponym
Related & opposite
- fate derivation
Sense 2 verb
decree or designate beforehand
She was destined to become a great pianist
Types & categories
- ordain hypernym
Related & opposite
- terminus derivation
- destiny derivation
- destination derivation
- destiny derivation
Sense 3 noun
the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
we are helpless in the face of destiny
Types & categories
- causal agent hypernym
Parts & wholes
- occult part holonym
Related & opposite
- fate derivation
Sense 4 noun
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
whatever my fortune may be
Types & categories
- condition hypernym
- good luck hyponym
- providence hyponym
- bad luck hyponym
- failure hyponym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | happening |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | inevitable |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | karma |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | kismet |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | predestination |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | doom |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | terminus |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | destiny |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | destination |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | destiny |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | ordain |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | fate |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | occult |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | causal agent |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | condition |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | good luck |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | providence |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | bad luck |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | failure |