destined

5 definitions • 8 examples

intended (for a particular purpose):

destined for The money was destined for the relief of poverty, but was diverted by corrupt officials.

These cars are destined for the European market.

travelling or being sent to somewhere:

destined for Customs officers have seized nearly a ton of heroin destined for New York.

controlled by fate, and not by humans:

destined for She is destined for an extremely successful career.

[ + to infinitive ] These plans are destined to fail.

[ + that ] Do you think it was destined that we should one day meet?

intended for or being sent to a particular place:

The mail was destined for addresses throughout the Northeast.

To be destined can mean to happen in a particular way that seems to have been decided in advance:

[ + to infinitive ] He was destined to die before he could complete the poem.