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ˈdɛs tə nides·tiny

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Wiktionary4.5 / 2 votes

  1. destinynoun

    Synonyms:
    fate, orlay

  2. destinynoun

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    Synonyms:
    orlay, fate

  3. destinynoun

    The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

    Synonyms:
    orlay, fate

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.7 / 3 votes

  1. destiny

    Necessity is the quality of being necessary, or the quality of that which can not but be, become, or be true, or be accepted as true. Need and want always imply a lack; necessity may be used in this sense, but in the higher philosophical sense necessity simply denotes the exclusion of any alternative either in thought or fact; righteousness is a necessity (not a need) of the divine nature. Need suggests the possibility of supplying the deficiency which want expresses; to speak of a person's want of decision merely points out a weakness in his character; to say that he has need of decision implies that he can exercise or attain it. As applied to a deficiency, necessity is more imperative than need; a weary person is in need of rest; when rest becomes a necessity he has no choice but to stop work. An essential is something, as a quality, or element, that belongs to the essence of something else so as to be inseparable from it in its normal condition, or in any complete idea or statement of it. Compare NECESSARY; PREDESTINATION.

    Synonyms:
    compulsion, emergency, essential, exigency, extremity, fatality, fate, indispensability, indispensableness, necessity, need, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, unavoidableness, urgency, want

    Antonyms:
    choice, contingency, doubt, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fortuity, freedom, option, possibility, uncertainty

    Preposition:
    The necessity of surrender; a necessity for action; this is a necessity to me.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. destiny

    Synonyms:
    fate, decree, lot, fortune, predestination, necessity, doom, end

    Antonyms:
    will, volition, choice, deliberation, freedom, freewill

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 7 votes

  1. destiny, fatenoun

    an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

    Synonyms:
    luck, portion, fortune, circumstances, fate, lot

  2. destiny, fatenoun

    the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)

    "we are helpless in the face of destiny"

    Synonyms:
    luck, portion, fortune, circumstances, fate, lot

  3. fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portionnoun

    your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

    "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"

    Synonyms:
    tidy sum, fortune, fate, peck, mint, band, plenty, lot, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, portion, parcel, dowry, spate, muckle, mass, constituent, pile, share, good deal, stack, chance, luck, deal, serving, dowery, dower, percentage, caboodle, hazard, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, component, slew, heap, mess, part, bunch, sight, circumstances, mountain, draw, helping, component part, set, great deal, pot, circle

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. destinynoun

    Synonyms:
    lot, doom, fortune, fate, star, destination

  2. destinynoun

    Synonyms:
    fate, necessity, decrees of fate, wheel of fortune

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. destinynoun

    Synonyms:
    fate, doom, lot, fortune

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "destiny":

    fate, destination, destin, target, doom, intended, designed, lot, destined, aimed

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How to use destiny in a sentence?

  1. Ronald Reagan:

    With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

  2. Julie Weeks:

    More women have higher levels of education and more managerial experience, more [women] are getting the appetite to move on in their careers and have charge in their own destiny and start their own businesses.

  3. Kedar Joshi:

    They often say, “What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?”. Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.

  4. William Jennings Bryan:

    Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

  5. Katy Perry:

    I really think, like everybody has their opinions on these shows and there is a multitude of them, but I don’t want to be like super shady, but you can name 10 people -- at least -- that have come off ‘American Idol’… that have legitimate careers, that put out music, that have changed their journey, their destiny, affected people’s lives.


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