foreordained

1. 1.

   established or prearranged unalterably

   “his place in history was foreordained”

   “a sense of predestinate inevitability about it”

   “it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world”

   Synonymspredestinatepredestined

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Questions about foreordained

What does foreordained mean?

foreordained means "established or prearranged unalterably".

How many syllables are in foreordained?

foreordained has 4 syllables: fo-reor-dai-ned. The stress falls on "reor".

What is another word for foreordained?

Close synonyms include predestinate, predestined. 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 foreordained a common word?

foreordained is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.