predestinate

1. 1.

   foreordain by divine will or decree

   Synonymspredestineforeordain

   Broaderpredetermine

   theology

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”

   Synonymsforeordainedpredestined

   Similarcertain

Other forms of predestinate

past tense

predestinated·

present participle

predestinating·

third person

predestinates·

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 predestinate

What does predestinate mean?

predestinate means "foreordain by divine will or decree". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in predestinate?

predestinate has 4 syllables: pre-de-sti-nate. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for predestinate?

Close synonyms include predestine, foreordain, foreordained, 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 predestinate a common word?

predestinate 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.