Luck vs Fate - What's the difference?
luck | fate |
Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.
A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
success
To succeed by chance.
To rely on luck.
To carry out relying on luck.
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
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The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
(lb) (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
* 2011 , James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)
In transitive terms the difference between luck and fate
is that luck is to carry out relying on luck while fate is to foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.As nouns the difference between luck and fate
is that luck is something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence while fate is the presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.As verbs the difference between luck and fate
is that luck is to succeed by chance while fate is to foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.As proper nouns the difference between luck and fate
is that luck is {{surname|from=given names} while Fate is any one of the Fates.luck
English
Noun
(-)- The raffle is just a matter of luck .
- Sometimes it takes a bit of luck to get success.
- I couldn't believe my luck when I found a fifty dollar bill on the street.
- Gilbert had some bad luck yesterday — he got pick-pocketed and lost fifty dollars.
- He blew on the dice for luck .
- I wish you lots of luck for the exam tomorrow.
- I tried for ages to find a pair of blue suede shoes, but didn't have any luck .
- He has a lot of luck with the ladies, perhaps it is because of his new motorbike.
Synonyms
* fortune (both senses)Derived terms
* bad luck * down on one's luck * good luck * luckless * lucky * lucky break * luck out * luck of the draw * luck of the Irish * luck upon * push one's luck * ride one's luck * run of bad luck * sheer luck * streak of good luckVerb
(en verb)- His plan lucked out.
- No plan. We're just to going to have to luck through.
- Our plan is to luck it through.
fate
English
(wikipedia fate)Noun
- Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate' which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that ' fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
Synonyms
* destiny * doom * fortune * kismet * lot * necessity * orlay * predestination * wyrdAntonyms
* choice * free will * freedomDerived terms
* fatal * fatalism * fatality * tempt fateSee also
* determinism * indeterminismVerb
(fat)- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
- At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.