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destined
adjective
1 destined
Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students':
— A flight destined for New York.
synonym: bound.
Roget 601:
necessary,
needful
etc.
(requisite)
630.
fated;
destined
etc.
v.;
elect;
spellbound compulsory
etc.
(compel)
744;
uncontrollable,
inevitable,
unavoidable,
irresistible,
irrevocable,
inexorable;
avoidless†,
resistless.
involuntary,
instinctive,
automatic,
blind,
mechanical;
unconscious,
unwitting,
unthinking;
unintentional
etc.
(undesigned)
621;
impulsive
etc.
612.
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Roget 152:
impending
etc.
v.;
destined;
about to be,
happen;
coming,
in store,
to come,
going to happen,
instant,
at hand,
near;
near,
close at hand;
over hanging,
hanging over one's head,
imminent;
brewing,
preparing,
forthcoming;
int he wind,
on the cards,
in reserve;
that will,
is to be;
in prospect
etc.
(expected)
507;
looming in the distance,
horizon,
future;
unborn,
in embryo;
int he womb of time,
futurity;
pregnant
etc.
(producing)
161.
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2 destined
usually followed by `to' Governed by fate:
— An old house destined to be demolished.
— He is destined to be famous.
synonym: bound.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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