destined

1. 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”

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2. 2.

   (usually followed by `to') governed by fate

   “bound to happen”

   “an old house destined to be demolished”

   “he is destined to be famous”

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Other forms of destined

comparative

destinedder·

superlative

destineddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about destined

What does destined mean?

destined means "headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in destined?

destined has 2 syllables: des-tined. The stress falls on "des". In IPA it is /ˈdɛstɪnd/.

What is another word for destined?

Close synonyms include bound, bound. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is destined a common word?

destined is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.