destined

destined
adj
1. bound for, on the way to or towards, Inf. headed for; routed, booked, scheduled.
2. designed, intended, meant, determined, set; designated, dedicated, alloted; engaged, reserved, Brit. bespoken.
3. fated, fatal, ordained, doomed, Rare. destinated, Obs. destinal, Obs. destinable; written, in the cards, on the books; predetermined, predestined, predestinate, predestinated, preordained, foreordained, foredoomed, predecided.
4. certain, sure, sure as death, sure as death and taxes, fateful; inevitable, unavoidable, inescapable, ineluctable, includible.
5. liable to, bound to; planning to, intending to, meaning to, aiming to; planning on, counting on, figuring on; plotting to, scheming to, conspiring to, contriving to.

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