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pre-determine

pre-determine is the alternative form of predetermine.

Meaning of predetermine

Verb

predetermine (third-person singular simple present predetermines, present participle predetermining, simple past and past participle predetermined)

  1. (transitive) To determine or decide in advance.
    • God's Counsel doth not predetermine the Will to any evil1688, Matthew Hale, A Discourse of the Knowledge of God and of Ourselves
  2. (transitive) To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.

Forms of pre-determine

third-person singular presentpre-determines
present participlepre-determining
past participlepre-determined
pastpre-determined

Questions about pre-determine

What is pre-determine the alternative form of?
Pre-determine is the alternative form of predetermine.

Words near pre-determine in the dictionary

  1. pre-decrementing
  2. pre-decrements
  3. pre-defined
  4. pre-dental
  5. pre-depression
  6. pre-determine
  7. pre-determined
  8. pre-determines
  9. pre-determining
  10. pre-diabetes
  11. pre-diabetic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-determine (page history and authors); predetermine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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