DESTINED DEFINITIONS - 6 definitions found
destined adj 1: headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'; "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New York" [syn: bound, destined] 2: (usually followed by `to') governed by fate; "bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is destined to be famous" [syn: bound(p), destined] Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary destined 1. If something is destined to happen or if someone is destined to behave in a particular way, that thing seems certain to happen or be done. London seems destined to lose more than 2,000 hospital beds... Everyone knew that Muriel was destined for great things. ADJ: v-link ADJ, ADJ to-inf, ADJ for n 2. If someone is destined for a particular place, or if goods are destined for a particular place, they are travelling towards that place or will be sent to that place. ...products destined for Saudi Arabia. = bound ADJ: v-link ADJ for n Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Destine \Des"tine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Destined; p. pr. & vb. n. Destining.] [F. destiner, L. destinare; de + the root of stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. Obstinate.] To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for. We are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe. --Milton. Till the loathsome opposite Of all my heart had destined, did obtain. --Tennyson. Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way. --Longfellow. Syn: To design; mark out; determine; allot; choose; intend; devote; consecrate; doom. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) destined ˈdestɪnd adj. 1 meant, intended, designed, predetermined, foreordained, predestined, fated; doomed, written; US in the cards: His destined end was to be shot while escaping. Oliver was destined to fail at everything he tried. It was destined that the boy would become king. 2 certain, sure, bound, ineluctable, unavoidable, inevitable, inescapable: Being devoured by monsters is the destined demise of all who dare to enter there. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 52 Moby Thesaurus words for "destined": appointed, approaching, bound, certain, coming, designed, desired, destinal, determined, devoted, doomed, emergent, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fateful, fatidic, foredoomed, foreordained, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, in store, in the cards, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, intended, later, marked, meant, nearing, ordained, planned, plotted, predestined, predetermined, predicted, probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, sure, to come, to-be, ultimate, unavoidable, written |
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