Synonyms of foreordain

foreordain

verb

ˌfȯr-ȯr-ˈdān 

as in to destine

to determine the fate of in advance

we are such good friends, it's almost like we were foreordained to meet

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destine
• ordain
• doom
• fate
• preordain
• predetermine
• predestine
• predict
• condemn
• foredoom
• sentence
• foretell
• prophesy
• prognosticate
• presage
• forecast
• divine
• predestinate
• prejudge
• augur
• portend
• foresee
• anticipate
• bode
• foreknow
• forebode
• preconceive

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of foreordain

Wagner commented that in opera the orchestra should act as a medium of premonition, indicating what is foreordained but not yet foreseen. — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

Before anything else is said about Lana Del Rey’s new album, let it be noted that however well the record came out, it was foreordained to come in second among her artistic works of the past year. — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023

Pelosi is more than happy for additional evidence to be disclosed and for the Senate to call witnesses, even after the House has impeached and when the resolution of the trial is foreordained. — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 17 Jan. 2020

The outcome was not foreordained, for either Bork or Mr. Biden. — Alexander Burns, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2019

The 41st president, who couldn’t always get his sentences straight, wasn’t foreordained for history’s hall of fame. — Josef Joffe, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018

Aster piles on the personal confrontations and emotional breakdowns, but compounds them with unnerving new hauntings, all the way up to an ending that feels foreordained, but still shattering. — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 8 June 2018