karma
karma
Definition
karma (kär′mə, kʉr′-)
noun
- Buddhism, Hinduism the totality of a person's actions in any one of the successive states of that person's existence, thought of as determining the fate of the next stage
- loosely fate; destiny
Etymology: Sans, a deed, act, fate < IE base *kwer-, to make, form > Welsh pryd, shape, time
kar′·mic adjective
karma
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- generate: The second question is whether abortion always generates bad karma, or in Western terms, is it ever " justified.
- create: Doing what he had done had created major karma.
- have: Whoever has the highest karma at the end of the week gets made moderator, then their karma gets reset to zero.
- accumulate: It will also clear a lot of accumulated karma, making space for the new order.
- get: Bugs Bugs, bugs, now I'm at war Got a bug karma, it's bed-bugs for sure.
- bring: Abusing a partner's kindness will bring back heavy karma and will be paid in full.
Adjective modifier
- dialectical: By labeling the cause good or bad I produce dialectical karma.
- bad: At no stage of a human life within society can bad karma be avoided.
- negative: Negative karma can be negated by the Law of Grace.
- instant: Surround with potted plants and some pebbles for instant karma.
- moral: This is why psychological karma is different from moral karma.
- psychological: This is why psychological karma is different from moral karma.
Modifies a noun
- quoth...: At 2:11 AM, karma quoth... honey you had surgery on your ass?
- chameleon: So when did the karma chameleon start cultivating an interest in politics?
- sutra: One person in particular looks like he's auditioning to be in the next karma sutra, only with clothes and on a train.
- ': The Indian term ' karma ' is ideal for my purpose.
- yoga: His life was ' karma yoga ' in practice.
- vote: Karma votes are a method to vote the ' karma ' of an item.
Noun used with modifier
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