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fateless

fateless adjective: devoid of fate.

Adjective

fateless (not comparable)

  1. Devoid of fate.
    • Coming out of the fateless, leading into the fateless, with hardly anything assigned to chance, the peasant's path runs on the very brink of destiny and on the brink of sleep.1946, Hermann Broch, The death of Virgil, page 224

Origin of fateless

From fate + -less.

Questions about fateless

What does fateless mean?
Fateless means devoid of fate.
What part of speech is fateless?
Fateless is an adjective.

Words near fateless in the dictionary

  1. Fatehgarh Sahib
  2. Fatehpur
  3. Fatehpur Sikri
  4. fatele
  5. fateles
  6. fateless
  7. fatelike
  8. fates
  9. fatesome
  10. FATF
  11. fatface

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