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单词 doomful
释义 doomful, a.|ˈduːmfʊl|
[f. doom n. + -ful.]
Fraught with or involving doom; fateful.
1586Spenser Sonn. to Harvey, For Life, and Death, is in thy doomefull writing.1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Urania i. Wks. 1/1 Eternal God, which..at the doomefull day will once unhaspe Th' accusing booke of Subiects and of Kings.1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. vi. vii, Think what a volley: reverberating doomful to the four corners of Paris.




Add: Hence ˈdoomfully adv.
1949S. Spender Edge of Being 53 As though to live were to be doomfully blind.1981N.Y. Times 29 Nov. xi. 47/2 This usual group of corporate Pollyannas looks at a reservoir that's half full and doomfully declares that it's half empty.
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