Index of English words, starting with "fa"

(1) - Fatalist (n.) One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

(1) - Fatality (n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
(2) - Fatality (n.) The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
(3) - Fatality (n.) The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

(1) - Fate (n.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
(2) - Fate (n.) 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; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
(3) - Fate (n.) Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
(4) - Fate (n.) 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.

(1) - Fated (p. p. & a.) Exempted by fate.
(2) - Fated (p. p. & a.) Invested with the power of determining destiny.
(3) - Fated (p. p. & a.) Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.

(1) - Fateful (a. .) Significant of fate; ominous.
(2) - Fateful (a. .) Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate.