PREDESTINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predestined mean? 

• PREDESTINED (adjective)
  The adjective PREDESTINED has 1 sense:

1. established or prearranged unalterably

  Familiarity information: PREDESTINED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDESTINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Established or prearranged unalterably

Synonyms:

foreordained; predestinate; predestined

Context example:

it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world

Similar:

certain; sure (certain to occur; destined or inevitable)

 Context examples 

The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Thursday, predestined to hope and enjoyment, came; and opened with more kindness to Fanny than such self-willed, unmanageable days often volunteer, for soon after breakfast a very friendly note was brought from Mr. Crawford to William, stating that as he found himself obliged to go to London on the morrow for a few days, he could not help trying to procure a companion; and therefore hoped that if William could make up his mind to leave Mansfield half a day earlier than had been proposed, he would accept a place in his carriage.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)