noun The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.noun The cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun (Myth.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life.noun The element of chance in the affairs of life the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events fortune esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle.noun Appointed lot allotted life arranged or predetermined event destiny especially, the final lot doom ruin death.noun A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed the immutable law of the universe inevitable necessity the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.See destiny.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. They were three in number, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. noun In Greek and Roman mythology, destiny: usually in the plural, the Destinies, goddesses supposed to preside over the birth, life, and death of human beings.noun That which comes from necessity or the force of circumstances an inevitable course or event hence, fortune, lot, or destiny in general: as, it was his fate to be betrayed by his party.noun Primarily, a prophetic declaration of what must be a divine decree or a fixed sentence by which the order of things is prescribed hence, that which is inevitably predetermined destiny ordained and unalterable that which must be, in spite of all opposing forces.noun Greek & Roman Mythology The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who control human destiny.noun An unfavorable outcome in life doom or death.noun A final result or consequence an outcome.