preordained
Speech parts
1. preordained - Adjective
2. preordained - Verb
Meaning
preordained
simple past and past participle of preordain
preordained (not comparable)
determined in advance; predestined
Synonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.
I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.