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preordained

preordained is the simple past and past participle of preordain.

Meaning of preordain

Verb

preordain (third-person singular simple present preordains, present participle preordaining, simple past and past participle preordained)

  1. (transitive) To determine the fate of something in advance.
    • A child! If here the heart turns sick with rath
      To see a little one from birth defiled,
      Or lame or blind, as preordained to languish
      Through youthless life1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

Adjective

preordained (not comparable)

  1. determined in advance; predestined
    • The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10 minutes. In addition, the size of each block bounty would halve every 210,000 blocks—first from 50 bitcoins to 25, then from 25 to 12.5, and so...2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2025

Synonyms of preordained

Words formed from preordained

Questions about preordained

What does preordained mean?
Preordained means determined in advance; predestined.
What is preordained the simple past and past participle of?
Preordained is the simple past and past participle of preordain.
What part of speech is preordained?
Preordained is an adjective.

Words near preordained in the dictionary

  1. preoral
  2. preorally
  3. preorbital
  4. preorbitals
  5. preordain
  6. preordained
  7. preordaining
  8. preordainment
  9. preordainments
  10. preordains
  11. preorder

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