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predetermine

/ˌpɹiː.dɪˈtɜː.mɪn/US/ˌpɹiːdɪˈtɝ.mɪn/

predetermine verb: to determine or decide in advance.

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
    • That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans...2022 February 15, David Goldman, “Why your Wordle answers might now be different than your friends’”, in CNN Business
  2. (transitive) To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.

predetermine meaning in Tamil and Kannada

predetermine in Tamil

முன் தீர்மானிக்கப்பட்ட

predetermine in Kannada

to predetermine, regulate, control
ಕಟ್ಟು kaṭṭu

Examples of predetermine in a sentence

  • When elongating a quadball, is it possible to predetermine the new length?
  • However, the proceedings were quite carefully orchestrated to produce what seemed to be a predetermined outcome.
  • Amateur traders get nerve-wracked, and tend to sell short of their predetermined exit points.

All 25 example sentences with predetermine

Synonyms of predetermine

Forms of predetermine

third-person singular presentpredetermines
present participlepredetermining
past participlepredetermined
pastpredetermined

Origin of predetermine

From Latin praedēterminō; equivalent to pre- + determine.

Words formed from predetermine

Questions about predetermine

What does predetermine mean?
Predetermine means to determine or decide in advance.
What is predetermine in Tamil?
Predetermine in Tamil is முன் தீர்மானிக்கப்பட்ட. See Predetermine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is predetermine?
Predetermine is a verb.
How do you pronounce predetermine?
Predetermine is pronounced /ˌpɹiː.dɪˈtɜː.mɪn/ (UK).
What is the past tense of predetermine?
The past tense of predetermine is predetermined.

Words near predetermine in the dictionary

  1. predeterminately
  2. predetermination
  3. predeterminations
  4. predeterminative
  5. predeterminatives
  6. predetermine
  7. predetermined
  8. predeterminedly
  9. predeterminedness
  10. predeterminer
  11. predeterminers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: predetermine (page history and authors); predetermine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಕಟ್ಟು (Kannada) (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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