If you say that a person is fated to do something, or that something is fated, you mean that it seems to have been decided by fate before it happens, and nothing can be done to avoid or change it. He was fated not to score. stories of desperation, fated love, treachery and murder. see also ill-fated = doomed. certain to happen or to do something because a mysterious force is controlling events = destined be fated to do sth