Word Meanings - DESTINY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can

Additional info about word: DESTINY

1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant. 2. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. But who can turn the stream of destiny Spenser. Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow. The Destinies , the three Parcæ, or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESTINY)

• Fate
• Necessity
• destiny
• lot
• end
• fortune
• doom
• Indispensableness
• inevitableness
• need
• indigence
• requirement
• want
• fate

Related words: (words related to DESTINY)

• INDISPENSABLENESS
  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
• INEVITABLENESS
  The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen. Prideaux.
• FORTUNELESS
  Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
• REQUIREMENT
  1. The act of requiring; demand; requisition. 2. That which is required; an imperative or authoritative command; an essential condition; something needed or necessary; a need. One of those who believe that they can fill up every requirement
• INDIGENCE
  The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper. Syn. -- Poverty; penury; destitution; want; need; privation; lack. See Poverty.
• NECESSITY
  The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. Of necessity, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or irresistible power; perforce. Syn.
• DESTINY
  1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can
• FORTUNE
  chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See Bear to support, and cf. 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success,
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• PREDESTINY
  Predestination.
• BEFORTUNE
  To befall. I wish all good befortune you. Shak.
• MISFORTUNE
  Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance. Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. Addison. Syn. -- Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm; disaster.
• NONNECESSITY
  Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.
• INFORTUNE
  Misfortune. Chaucer.
• INFORTUNED
  Unfortunate. I, woeful wretch and infortuned wight. Chaucer.
• UNNECESSITY
  The state of being unnecessary; something unnecessary.