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des·tined

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bound, destinedadjective

    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"

  2. bound(p), destinedadjective

    (usually followed by `to') governed by fate

    "bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is destined to be famous"

Wiktionary

  1. destinedadjective

    Confined to a predetermined fate or destiny; certain.

    He is sure he is destined for fame.

ChatGPT

  1. destined

    Destined refers to the events or outcomes that are determined or influenced by fate or a predetermined set of results; meant or likely to occur in a particular way or to have a specific role or purpose. It can also refer to a person who is heading towards a particular place or moving in a specific direction.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Destined

    of Destine

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of destined in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of destined in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of destined in a Sentence

  1. Tamaey Gottuso:

    You cannot NOT be what you were destined to become.

  2. Xu Shaoshi:

    China will absolutely not experience a hard landing, these predictions of a hard landing are destined to come to nothing.

  3. Omar Khayym:

    Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultn after Sultn with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.

  4. Antonin Artaud:

    Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

  5. Elizabeth Vega:

    We looked up the performances, and found (Saturday's performance) was a Requiem. It just seemed almost destined.

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