Doom
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English
Noun
Doom (countable and uncountable; plural Dooms)- (countable, historical) A law.
- (countable, historical) A judgment or decision
- (countable, historical) A sentence or penalty for an illegality or type of illegality.
- Death; an adverse or terrible fate, end.
- They met an untimely doom when the mine shaft caved in.
- Destiny, especially adverse.
- An impending severe problem or danger that seems inevitable.
- 2009 Nate Davis After Lions^ gamble, lots of big men tapped
- Chung was the first of its four picks in Round 2. His arrival might spell doom for Rodney Harrison.
- A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
- 2010 Mark Morford What to do when it all goes right
- perhaps you do that most rare of things when reading the news: You grin, exhale, stop feeling doom in every crevasse and corner of your body.
- (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation of it.
Derived terms
- doom-and-gloomer, gloom-and-doomer
- doomer
- doomful
- doomless
- doomlike
- doom metal
- doomsday
- doomsayer
- doomster
- doomy
- entropic doom
- foredoom
- predoom
Verb
Doom (third-person singular simple present Dooms, present participle Dooming, simple past and past participle Doomed)
Adjectives for Doom
impending; ultimate; irrevocable; ignominious; inescapable; dreadful; tragic; distant; thankful; inevitable; eternal; mysterious; dark; self-wrought; everlasting; inscrutable; stormy; graceless; fatal; approaching; imminent; perpetual; dubious; ultimate.
Verbs for Doom
announce—; assign—; avoid—; bear—; bide—; consign to—; curse—; draw to—; dread—; fix—; fly to—; foresee—; foreshadow—; foretell—; hasten to—; move to—; near—; precipitate—; pronounce—; read—; revoke—; seal—; sound—; spell—; threaten—; —closes in; —impends.
Adverbs for Doom
irrecoverably; irrevocably; apparently; everlastingly; prophetically; ultimately; ignominiously; inescapably; dreadfully; tragically; inevitably; eternally; mysteriously;inscrutably; fatally; cruelly.
Thesaurus
Day of Judgment, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Judgment Day, Z, abuse, act on, action, afflict, aggrieve, anathematize, anathematizing, annihilation, apodosis, appoint, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, attaint, award, bane, befoul, bewitch, biological death, blacklist, blight, book of fate, bring home to, calamity, cast into hell, cataclysm, catastrophe, ceasing, censure, cessation, cessation of life, circumstance, clinical death, coda, conclusion, condemn, condemn to hell, condemnation, consideration, consign to hell, constellation, consummation, convict, conviction, corrupt, crack of doom, crossing the bar, crucify, culmination, cup, curse, curtain, curtains, damage, damn, damnation, day of doom, death, death knell, death sentence, death warrant, deathblow, debt of nature, decease, decision, decree, defile, deliverance, demise, denouement, denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, departure, deprave, despoil, destinate, destination, destine, destiny, destroy, destruction, determination, devote, diagnosis, dictum, dies funestis, disadvantage, disaster, disserve, dissolution, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom to perdition, doomsday, downfall, dying, ebb of life, effect, end, end of life, end point, ending, envenom, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eternal rest, excommunicate, excommunication, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fatality, fate, final solution, final summons, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, find, find against, find for, find guilty, finding, finger of death, finis, finish, foredoom, fortune, future, get into trouble, goal, going, going off, grave, guilty verdict, hand of death, harass, harm, hex, hurt, ides of March, impair, inevitability, infect, injure, izzard, jaws of death, jinx, judgment, karma, kismet, knell, last, last breath, last days, last debt, last gasp, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, leaving life, loss of life, lot, making an end, maltreat, mark, menace, mistreat, moira, molest, omega, ordain, order, outrage, parting, pass judgment, pass sentence, pass sentence on, passing, passing away, passing over, payoff, penalize, period, perishing, peroration, persecute, planets, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, portion, precedent, prejudice, prognosis, pronounce, pronounce judgment, pronounce on, pronounce sentence, pronouncement, proscribe, proscription, quietus, rap, release, report, resolution, rest, resting place, return a verdict, reward, ruin, rule, ruling, savage, scathe, sentence, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, sleep, somatic death, stars, stoppage, stopping place, summons of death, swan song, taint, term, terminal, termination, terminus, the Judgment, threaten, torment, torture, tragedy, trump of doom, unlucky day, utter a judgment, verdict, verdict of guilty, violate, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven, windup, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong
Etymology
From Old English dōm (“judgement”), cognate with Old Norse dómr, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian "dom"
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