Word Meanings - FATALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

Related words: (words related to FATALIST)

• INEVITABLENESS
  The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen. Prideaux.
• 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.
• INEVITABLE
  1. Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain. "The inevitable hour." Gray. It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things. Burke. 2. Irresistible. "Inevitable charms." Dryden.
• HAPPEN
  Etym: 1. To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov. xii. 21. 2. To take place; to occur. All these things which had happened. Luke xxiv. 14. To happen on, to meet with; to
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• BEHAPPEN
  To happen to.
• NONNECESSITY
  Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.
• UNNECESSITY
  The state of being unnecessary; something unnecessary.