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destiny
Overview of noun destiny
The noun destiny has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (6) destiny, fate -- (an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future)
2. (1) Destiny, Fate -- (the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny")
3. fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion -- (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/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun destiny
3 senses of destiny
Sense 1
destiny, fate
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
Destiny, Fate
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
=> condition
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun destiny
2 of 3 senses of destiny
Sense 1
destiny, fate
=> inevitable
=> karma
=> kismet, kismat
=> predestination
=> doom, doomsday, day of reckoning, end of the world
Sense 3
fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
=> good fortune, luckiness, good luck
=> providence
=> misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill luck
=> failure
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun destiny
3 senses of destiny
Sense 1
destiny, fate
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
Sense 2
Destiny, Fate
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
Sense 3
fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
=> condition
Antonyms of noun destiny
Member Holonyms of noun destiny
Substance Holonyms of noun destiny
Part Holonyms of noun destiny
1 of 3 senses of destiny
Sense 2
Destiny, Fate
PART OF: supernatural, occult
Member Meronyms of noun destiny
Substance Meronyms of noun destiny
Part Meronyms of noun destiny
Meronyms of noun destiny
Holonyms of noun destiny
1 of 3 senses of destiny
Sense 2
Destiny, Fate
PART OF: supernatural, occult
Attributes of noun destiny
Derived Forms of noun destiny
Domain of noun destiny
Domain Terms of noun destiny
Familiarity of noun destiny
destiny used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun destiny
3 senses of destiny
Sense 1
destiny, fate
> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> accompaniment, concomitant, attendant, co-occurrence
=> avalanche
=> experience
=> trouble
=> treat
=> miracle
=> wonder, marvel
=> thing
=> episode
=> eventuality, contingency, contingence
=> beginning
=> ending, conclusion, finish
=> one-off
=> periodic event, recurrent event
=> change, alteration, modification
=> error, computer error
=> accident, fortuity, chance event
=> fire
=> incident
=> discharge
=> case, instance, example
=> movement, motion
=> failure
=> success
=> appearance
=> destiny, fate
=> disappearance
=> disappearance
=> contact, impinging, striking
=> finish
=> interruption, break
=> sound
=> union
=> news event
=> flash
=> convergence
=> juncture, occasion
=> outburst, burst, flare-up
=> outbreak, eruption, irruption
=> reverse, reversal, setback, blow, black eye
=> boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce
=> crash, collapse
=> supervention
Sense 2
Destiny, Fate
> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> agent
=> nature
=> supernatural, occult
=> theurgy
=> first cause, prime mover, primum mobile
=> Destiny, Fate
=> catalyst
=> deus ex machina
=> operator, manipulator
=> power, force
=> vital principle, life principle
=> engine
=> cause of death, killer
=> danger
=> agent
Sense 3
fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
> condition
=> stratification, social stratification
=> ordinary
=> invagination, introversion
=> roots
=> lysogeny, lysogenicity
=> fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
=> amphidiploidy
=> diploidy
=> haploidy
=> heteroploidy
=> polyploidy
=> mosaicism
=> orphanage, orphanhood
=> stigmatism
=> transsexualism
Meronyms of noun destiny
3 senses of destiny
Holonyms of noun destiny
1 of 3 senses of destiny
Sense 2
Destiny, Fate
PART OF: supernatural, occult
Grep of noun destiny
destiny
line of destiny
manifest destiny
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