Synonyms of fates

fates 1 of 2

noun

plural of fate

1

as in destinies

a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand

the belief that it was this country's fate to extend from sea to sea

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destinies
• fortunes
• circumstances
• chances
• portions
• dooms
• luck
• kismets
• accidents
• hazards
• effects
• consequences
• lots
• outcomes
• happenstances
• haps
• issues
• results
• casualties
• developments
• aftereffects
• sequences
• sequels
• resultants
• happenchances
• fruits
• aftermaths
• predestinations
• outgrowths
• conclusions
• upshots

2

as in outcomes

a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause

the fate of the presidential election hinged on a few thousand votes in a single state

Synonyms & Similar Words

• outcomes
• consequences
• results
• resultants
• effects
• products
• aftermaths
• issues
• developments
• implications
• aftereffects
• sequels
• fruits
• children
• matters of course
• precipitates
• corollaries
• sequences
• conclusions
• ramifications
• outgrowths
• upshots
• repercussions
• backwashes
• denouements
• echoes
• side effects
• by-products
• aftershocks
• fallouts
• offshoots
• ripples
• blowbacks
• spin-offs
• afterclaps
• afterglows

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• factors
• reasons
• causes
• considerations
• antecedents
• occasions
• determinants
• causations
• foundations
• grounds
• incentives
• bases
• bases
• stimuli
• sources
• mothers
• origins
• roots
• springs
• inspirations
• groundworks
• instigations
• impetuses

3

as in deaths

the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities

he met his fate in a tragic highway accident

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deaths
• demises
• passings
• dooms
• dissolutions
• graves
• ends
• curtains
• expirations
• passages
• exits
• deceases
• sleeps
• endings
• suicides
• assassinations
• fatalities
• casualties
• destructions
• quietuses
• great divides
• expiries
• martyrdoms
• ruins
• executions
• annihilations
• killings
• exterminations
• massacres
• slaughters
• self-destructions
• self-murders
• self-slaughters

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• births
• lives
• existences
• nativities
• creations
• originations
• rises
• geneses

fates

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of fate

as in destines

to determine the fate of in advance

the warning that the lack of an advanced education will fate a person to a lifetime of below-average earnings

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destines
• dooms
• ordains
• predetermines
• predestines
• preordains
• sentences
• foredooms
• foreordains
• predicts
• condemns
• presages
• prophesies
• forecasts
• prognosticates
• augurs
• foretells
• prejudges
• bodes
• portends
• forebodes
• divines
• predestinates
• foreknows
• foresees
• anticipates
• preconceives

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fates

Noun

While details on season 15 have been kept under wraps, Mayo and Kinney were confirmed as returning to the show for season 15 in May, leaving the fates of most of the cast still in the air. — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 31 July 2026

Their fates are reversing in early trading Thursday, with Micron surging higher and Adobe selling off. — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 30 July 2026

Mayo and Kinney were confirmed as returning to the show for season 15 in May, leaving the fates of much of the rest of the cast still in the air. — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026

Merely playing postseason baseball might not guarantee Brown or manager Joe Espada new deals in Houston, but missing out on it altogether might seal their fates with owner Jim Crane. — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 27 July 2026

Thus, Californians and Washingtonians may not just be deciding their own tax fates, and these outcomes could be casting an early verdict that has nationwide tax implications. — Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

This version centers a guilt-racked and traumatized Odysseus—and leaves gods and fates, mystery and wonder largely out of the picture. — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Soon enough, Karl’s seemingly foolproof blackmail scheme devolves into a merciless, dog-eat-dog fight for survival, and the two men are locked in a cutthroat collision course, their fates now inextricably linked. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2026

Diverging fates But how could Venus, a planet that is nearly the same size as Earth and that was once made up of the same things, end up so different from our home world? — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 13 July 2026

Verb

The expansion of the category and Nolan’s increased Oscar success since Dunkirk have changed his films’ Oscar fates. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 22 July 2026