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fate
fate is a 4-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
- 2noun
Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
- 3noun
The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
- 4noun
The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
- 5noun
an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
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- 6noun
the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
"we are helpless in the face of destiny"
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- 7noun
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
"whatever my fortune may be"
"deserved a better fate"
- 8verb
decree or designate beforehand
"She was destined to become a great pianist"
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