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adjective
- 1. likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome; ill-fated: "the moving story of their doomed love affair"
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adjective. uk / duːmd / us / duːmd / Add to word list. certain to fail, die, or be destroyed: This is a doomed city. Synonyms. fated. ill-fated. ill-starred literary. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Not hopeful. a road to nowhere idiom. be in a funk idiom. be on a hiding to nothing idiom. be on the road to nowhere idiom. bleakly.
Someone or something that is doomed is certain to fail or be destroyed. Fireman battled through the smoke in a doomed attempt to rescue the children. I used to pour time and energy into projects that were doomed from the start. Synonyms: hopeless, condemned, ill-fated, fated More Synonyms of doomed. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
Doomed definition: destined, or seemingly destined, especially to an adverse fate. See examples of DOOMED used in a sentence.
1. : a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England. 2. a. : judgment, decision. especially : a judicial condemnation or sentence. b (1) : judgment sense 5a. (2) : judgment day sense 1. 3. a. : destiny. especially : unhappy destiny. b. : death, ruin. doom. 2 of 2.
doom. verb [ T usually passive ] uk / duːm / us / duːm / to make someone or something certain to do or experience something unpleasant, or to make something bad certain to happen: [ + to infinitive ] Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? doom someone/something to something Mounting debts doomed the factory to closure.
1. Inevitable destruction or ruin: a tyrant who finally met his doom. 2. A decision or judgment, especially an official condemnation to a severe penalty. 3. Judgment Day. 4. A statute or ordinance, especially one in force in Anglo-Saxon England. tr.v. doomed, doom·ing, dooms. 1. To condemn to ruination or death. 2.
Doomed is a plural noun for referring to a group of unfortunate people, and it's also an adjective describing someone who's destined to die. A runaway dog that kills the animal control officer's pet chickens is doomed, and many characters in Shakespeare's tragic plays are doomed.
Definition of doomed adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Jun 2, 2024 · doomed (comparative more doomed, superlative most doomed) Assured to suffer death , failure , or a similarly negative outcome . Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
1. uncountable noun. Doom is a terrible future state or event which you cannot prevent. ...his warnings of impending doom. ...a wicked mermaid who lured sailors to their doom. Synonyms: destruction, ruin, catastrophe, death More Synonyms of doom. 2. uncountable noun.
