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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fated \Fat"ed\, p. p. & a.
1. Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.
One midnight Fated to the purpose. --Shak.
2. Invested with the power of determining destiny. [Obs.] ''The fated sky.'' --Shak.
3. Exempted by fate. [Obs. or R.] --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fated
adjective: (usually followed by 'to') determined by tragic fate; "doomed to unhappiness"; "fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination" [syn: {doomed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "fated": appointed, approaching, certain, coming, cursed, damned, decided, decreed, desired, destinal, destined, determined, devoted, doomed, emergent, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fateful, fatidic, foredoomed, foreordained, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, in store, in the cards, indefeasible, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, inflexible, irresistible, irrevocable, later, marked, nearing, necessary, ordained, planned, plotted, predestined, predetermined, predicted, preordained, probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, relentless, resistless, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, to come, to-be, ultimate, unavoidable, uncontrollable, undeflectable, unpreventable, unstoppable, unyielding, written
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