doomed

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duːmd/
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  • Rhymes: -uːmd

Adjective

doomed (comparative more doomed, superlative most doomed)

  1. Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
    Synonyms: cursed, done, undone; see also Thesaurus:doomed
    Antonym: blessed
    Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
    • 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 15:10 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 4 August 2022:
      Moments later, Courageous sheers out of line, smoke and steam venting through a massive hole in her side, the shells having blasted right through whatever excuse for armor was present and detonated amidst the boiler rooms. She is doomed.
  2. (archaic) Assured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.
    Synonyms: fateful, foreordained; see also Thesaurus:fated
    • 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
      Bonny Mary Burnet was lost. She left her father's house at nine o'clock on a Wednesday morning, 17th of September, neatly dressed in a white jerkin and green bonnet, with her hay-raik over her shoulder; and that was the last sight she was doomed ever to see of her native cottage.

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Verb

doomed

  1. simple past and past participle of doom