Synonyms of foreordained

foreordained 1 of 2

adjective

as in preordained

Related Words

• preordained
• destined
• fated
• predestined
• predetermined
• probable
• possible
• inexorable
• likely
• unremitting
• unstoppable
• relentless
• decided
• definite
• settled
• inevitable
• inescapable
• unavoidable
• ineluctable
• necessary
• sure
• certain
• unescapable
• ineludible

Dissimilar Words

• uncertain
• avoidable
• unsure
• preventable
• doubtful
• unclear
• questionable
• evadable
• dubious
• shaky
• undecided
• unlikely
• unsettled
• improbable
• unreliable
• undependable

foreordained

2 of 2

verb

past tense of foreordain

as in destined

to determine the fate of in advance

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destined
• doomed
• ordained
• preordained
• predestined
• predetermined
• fated
• foredoomed
• predicted
• condemned
• prophesied
• foretold
• sentenced
• forecast
• presaged
• predestinated
• anticipated
• foresaw
• prognosticated
• portended
• divined
• augured
• boded
• prejudged
• preconceived
• foreknew
• foreboded

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of foreordained

Adjective

Her foray into television, which started in 2017, was not exactly foreordained. — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 14 May 2024

With all of those movements, when the central issue was really crystallized as a choice between what is clearly right and just, and what is clearly unjust and wrong and deadly and dangerous, then the outcome becomes foreordained. — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024

As Robinson notes, the story had to go this way because Jacob has a foreordained task in becoming one of the patriarchs of Israel. — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024

For all the talk of Senate traditions, the outcome seems pretty foreordained if the Democrats win a majority and the intractable McConnell continues as GOP leader. — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2020