Word Meanings - DESTINABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Determined by destiny; fated. Chaucer.

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• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• FATILOQUENT
  Prophetic; fatidical. Blount.
• FATALNESS
  , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
• FATHOMER
  One who fathoms.
• FATALISTIC
  Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
• FATALITY
  1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
• FAT-BRAINED
  Dull of apprehension.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• FATUITY
  Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.
• FAT-WITTED
  Dull; stupid. Shak.
• FATA MORGANA
  A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. (more info) looked upon as the work of a fairy of the
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• FATUOUS
  1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill. 2. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham.
• FATTY
  Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance. Fatty acid , any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic
• FATHER
  OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad
• FATHER-IN-LAW
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
• FATHOMLESS
  1. Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak. 2. Incomprehensible. The fathomless absurdity. Milton.
• DETERMINER
  One who, or that which, determines or decides.
• DETERMINIST
  One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.
• OVERFATIGUE
  Excessive fatigue.
• INFATUATION
  The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates. The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor.
• INDEFATIGABLY
  Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• INDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.
• MARROWFAT
  A rich but late variety of pea.
• AFFATUATE
  To infatuate. Milton.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• INDEFATIGABILITY
  The state of being indefatigable.
• UNDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.