0 If something that happens or someone's actions are fated, they are decided by a power that controls events, and cannot be avoided. -- skazany, przeznaczony
[ + to do sth ] I seem fated to meet him wherever I go.
Too late-and so the boy was fated instead to become a kind of adviser to both parties and even a go-between, in the long and torrid unravelling of the relationship.
Moreover, while he desired to outmanoeuvre the myth that he was fated for an early death, in some of his best-known songs he embellished that myth.
It follows from their argument that if they are fated because they are in our genes, they can be detected by prenatal diagnosis, and the affected fetuses aborted.
Unfortunately, there is no satisfactory means of discriminating on midtrimester scan between those fetuses destined to have a more favourable outcome and those fated to be extremely disabled.
Your resurrection counterpart is thus predestined or fated to live out the improved version of your life just as a computer is fated to follow its programme.
Archigram was fated for an agitational role within the profession.
Scholars in comparative literature are fated to read poems in languages they don't speak - sometimes, indeed, in dead languages that no one speaks.
Yet it is important not to see that loss as necessarily fated from the beginning.
