If something is doomedto happen, or if you are doomedto a particular state, something unpleasant is certain to happen, and you can do nothing to prevent it.
Their plans seemed doomed to failure. [+ to]
He knew that if he lived, he would be doomed to spend the war as a prisoner.
2. adjective
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
doomed in British English
(duːmd)
adjective
bound to fail; hopeless
I used to pour time and energy into projects that were doomed from the start.
Their marriage was doomed to failure.
He knew that if he lived, he would be doomed to spend the war as a prisoner.
Examples of 'doomed' in a sentence
doomed
Entering into doomed relationships stops you feeling vulnerable.
The Sun (2014)
His doomed love for a fellow student?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He then used a series of rotten excuses in a doomed attempt to avoid a red card.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A bleakly beautiful portrait of doomed love.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
With a fine assortment of musician friends, he tackles gripping ancient ballads about doomed love and gruesome death.
The Sun (2010)
A breezy first half soon gives way to melodrama when doomed marriages and love rivalries tear the trio apart.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Our lives are made up of moments and people we treasure; our doomed love affairs are painful but still beautiful.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Giving names and numbers to days, months and years is just a doomed attempt to impose meaning on a universe that has none.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Which I did after dozens of doomed attempts and thousands of lies.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Her doomed marriage to the singer became the focus of a reality TV series.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
You've said you love the doomed romance of Dartmoor.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In 1953 he was part of a doomed attempt to rescue a sick climber on K2.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I'm in a doomed marriage.
The Sun (2012)
I spent many years in Golders Green before leaving to enter a doomed marriage.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In other languages
doomed
British English: doomed ADJECTIVE
to be doomed to sth | to be doomed to do sth If something is doomed to happen, or if you are doomed to a particular state, something unpleasant is certain to happen, and you can do nothing to prevent it.
Their plans seemed doomed to failure.
American English: doomed
Brazilian Portuguese: fadado
Chinese: 注定的
European Spanish: condenado
French: voué
German: verdammt
Italian: condannato
Japanese: 運命にある
Korean: ~할 운명이다
European Portuguese: fadado
Latin American Spanish: condenado
(adjective)
The attempt was doomed from the start.
Synonyms
hopeless
condemned
ill-fated
They are now home after their ill-fated trip abroad.
fated
I was fated never to get there.
unhappy
I have already informed your unhappy father of your expulsion.
unfortunate
charity days to raise money for unfortunate people
cursed
The whole family seemed cursed.
unlucky
13 was to prove an unlucky number.
blighted
hapless
the hapless victim struggled helplessly
bedevilled
luckless
the luckless parent of an extremely difficult child
ill-starred
an ill-starred attempt to create jobs in a deprived area