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单词 doomy
释义

doomy

adjective

ˈdü-mē How to pronounce doomy (audio)
doomier; doomiest
: suggestive of doom : doomful
doomily
ˈdü-mi-lē How to pronounce doomy (audio)
adverb

Synonyms

  • baleful
  • dire
  • direful
  • foreboding
  • ill
  • ill-boding
  • inauspicious
  • menacing
  • minatory
  • ominous
  • portentous
  • sinister
  • threatening
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Example Sentences

the surging doomy music in the background was an unmistakable sign that things would not end well for the movie's hero
Recent Examples on the Web An ancient fear of pirates, especially, in the glassless porthole windows (small, to attract less attention) that seem like vigilant, doomy eyes. Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019 Andy Haldane, the chief economist for the Bank of England, which was one of the sources of those doomy prognostications, agrees. John Lanchester, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

doomy

adjective

as in ominous
being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come the surging doomy music in the background was an unmistakable sign that things would not end well for the movie's hero

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • ominous
  • sinister
  • menacing
  • bleak
  • somber
  • darkening
  • dark
  • foreboding
  • depressive
  • portentous
  • threatening
  • murky
  • direful
  • depressing
  • dire
  • baleful
  • minatory
  • lonely
  • inauspicious
  • desolate
  • gloomy
  • black
  • gray
  • ill
  • ill-boding
  • morbid
  • lugubrious
  • morose
  • unfortunate
  • sepulchral
  • cheerless
  • cold
  • elegiac
  • funereal
  • saturnine
  • sullen
  • sombre
  • grey
  • dreary
  • dim
  • glum
  • dismal
  • unfavorable
  • drear
  • tenebrous
  • lonesome
  • troubled
  • plutonian
  • chill
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • cloudy
  • miserable
  • forlorn
  • comfortless
  • godforsaken
  • evil
  • unpropitious
  • hopeless
  • unpromising
  • sunless
  • elegiacal
  • disheartening
  • malignant
  • dreich
  • wretched
  • unlucky
  • Cimmerian
  • tenebrific
  • malign
  • ill-starred
  • ill-fated
  • star-crossed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • bright
  • favorable
  • golden
  • promising
  • benign
  • hopeful
  • unthreatening
  • prosperous
  • encouraging
  • auspicious
  • propitious
  • heartening
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