FATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fated mean? 

• FATED (adjective)
  The adjective FATED has 1 sense:

1. (usually followed by 'to') determined by tragic fate

  Familiarity information: FATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(usually followed by 'to') determined by tragic fate

Synonyms:

doomed; fated

Context example:

fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination

Similar:

certain; sure (certain to occur; destined or inevitable)

 Context examples 

But it was not fated that I should sleep that night.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I entered the cabin where lay the remains of my ill-fated and admirable friend.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was an awesome thing to sleep in that ill-fated camp; and yet it was even more unnerving to do so in the jungle.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a strength I had not possessed a few months before, on the day I said good-bye to Charley Furuseth and started for San Francisco on the ill-fated Martinez.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

From that night nothing has been seen of the three murderers by the police, and it is surmised at Scotland Yard that they were among the passengers of the ill-fated steamer Norah Creina, which was lost some years ago with all hands upon the Portuguese coast, some leagues to the north of Oporto.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This evil had been felt and lamented, at least three times a day, by Isabella since her residence in Bath; and she was now fated to feel and lament it once more, for at the very moment of coming opposite to Union Passage, and within view of the two gentlemen who were proceeding through the crowds, and threading the gutters of that interesting alley, they were prevented crossing by the approach of a gig, driven along on bad pavement by a most knowing-looking coachman with all the vehemence that could most fitly endanger the lives of himself, his companion, and his horse.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Poor simple lad! he had not learned yet that what men are and what men profess to be are very wide asunder, and that the Knights of St. John, having come into large part of the riches of the ill-fated Templars, were very much too comfortable to think of exchanging their palace for a tent, or the cellars of England for the thirsty deserts of Syria.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lady Russell and Mrs Croft were very well pleased with each other: but the acquaintance which this visit began was fated not to proceed far at present; for when it was returned, the Crofts announced themselves to be going away for a few weeks, to visit their connexions in the north of the county, and probably might not be at home again before Lady Russell would be removing to Bath.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I had not the least belief, in the outset of this story, that the unknown was anything but a delusion of Mr. Dick's, and one of the line of that ill-fated Prince who occasioned him so much difficulty; but after some reflection I began to entertain the question whether an attempt, or threat of an attempt, might have been twice made to take poor Mr. Dick himself from under my aunt's protection, and whether my aunt, the strength of whose kind feeling towards him I knew from herself, might have been induced to pay a price for his peace and quiet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)