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foredetermined

foredetermined adjective: determined in advance. Also the simple past and past participle of foredetermine.

Adjective

foredetermined (comparative more foredetermined, superlative most foredetermined)

  1. Determined in advance.
    • Each god, each man, has his individual moira, strictly foredetermined from without, not from within.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “V. The Seven Against Thebes”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 144

Also used as

foredetermined is also the simple past and past participle of foredetermine.

Forms of foredetermined

comparativemore foredetermined
superlativemost foredetermined

Origin of foredetermined

From fore- + determined.

Questions about foredetermined

What does foredetermined mean?
Foredetermined means determined in advance.
What part of speech is foredetermined?
Foredetermined is an adjective.

Words near foredetermined in the dictionary

  1. foredestines
  2. foredestining
  3. foredestiny
  4. foredetermination
  5. foredetermine
  6. foredetermined
  7. foredge
  8. foredges
  9. foredid
  10. foredispose
  11. foredisposed

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