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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
doomed (comparative more doomed, superlative most doomed)
- 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.
- (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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Translations
certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- Afrikaans: gedoem
- Arabic: محكوم (mahkum), مَحْكُوم m (maḥkūm)
- Basque: kondenatuta
- Burmese: ခြော (hkrau:)
- Catalan: condemnat (ca)
- Central Huishui Hmong: itbxhi
- Dutch: gedoemd (nl)
- Esperanto: kondamnita (eo)
- Finnish: tuhoon tuomittu, tuomittu (fi), tuhon oma
- French: condamné (fr)
- Galician: condenado
- German: verurteilt (de), verloren (de)
- Greek: καταραμένος (el) (kataraménos)
- Ancient: ὀλέθριος (oléthrios)
- Hausa: wanzuwa
- Hindi: मर्तव्य (martavya), मर्त्य (hi) (martya), नास-पीटा (nās-pīṭā), कालदष्ट (hi) (kāldaṣṭ), नश्वर (hi) (naśvar), रफ़्तनी (raftanī), अभिशप्त (hi) (abhiśapt), शापित (hi) (śāpit), स्रापित (hi) (srāpit), शप्त (hi) (śapt), मरणोन्मुख (hi) (marṇonmukh), मरणीय (hi) (marṇīya)
- Igbo: idikwe
- Italian: condannato (it), spacciato (it), predestinato (it), destinato (it)
- Latin: cādūcus
- Maori: meake
- Mongolian: хувь тавилан (xuvʹ tavilan)
- Nepali: बर्बाद (barbād)
- Polish: skazany (pl)
- Portuguese: condenado (pt)
- Punjabi: ਤਬਾਹ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤੀ (tabāh kar dittī)
- Russian: обречённый (ru) (obrečónnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: an dàn
- Somali: dhegjar
- Spanish: condenado (es), réprobo (es), maldito (es), imprecado (es), anatematizado (es), damnado, execrado (es)
- Ukrainian: прире́чений (pryréčenyj)
- Zulu: owawuzobhujiswa
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Verb
doomed
- simple past and past participle of doom