fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
ruin; death: to fall to one's doom.
a judgment, decision, or sentence, especially an unfavorable one: The judge pronounced the defendant's doom.
the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.
Obsolete. a statute, enactment, or legal judgment.
verb (used with object)
to destine, especially to an adverse fate.
to pronounce judgment against; condemn.
to ordain or fix as a sentence or fate.
Origin of doom
First recorded before 900; Middle English dome, dōm, Old English dōm “judgment, law”; cognate with Old Norse dōmr, “judgment, sentence, court,” Gothic dōms “sentence, fame,” all from Germanic dômaz “what has been set,” from dôn “to set, place, do1 ”; compare Greek thémis “law” (i.e., “what has been set, laid down”); see deem
SYNONYMS FOR doom
3 condemnation.
6 predestine.
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synonym study for doom
1. See fate.
OTHER WORDS FROM doom
doomy,adjectivepre·doom,verb (used with object)self-doomed,adjective
Plus, Lane seals her doom by agreeing to marry Zach, and Christopher’s fantastically annoying other daughter Gigi has tons of screentime.
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All at once he felt frigid and overwhelmed with a sense of impending doom.
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Many of his accounts feature fungal heroes, poised to save the planet from almost certain doom.
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When summer comes, adult beetles attack and larva feed in the cambium layer, girdling the trees and sealing their doom.
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Many view it as a man drawn to his doom by his infatuation for a younger woman, and youth in general.
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And that may doom any shot Hillary Clinton has at the presidency.
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Thankfully, I have a high-speed Internet connection, so my doom window was but fleeting.
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“Every sad and bitter tale has its hour when the doom inevitable in the long run becomes inescapable in the short,” Kempton wrote.
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They dare not let you live, for your existence spells their doom.
Under the Witches' Moon|Nathan Gallizier
The imprudence of Haman hastened the doom his crimes had provoked.
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The doom of eternity, and the fortunes of life, cannot be placed in competition.
Lothair|Benjamin Disraeli
Seymour Michael had kept silence, and elsewhere, perhaps, at that very moment his doom was spoken.
From One Generation to Another|Henry Seton Merriman
Let us also be exalted with an honourable show of joy, following in death the doom of our noble father.
The Danish History, Books I-IX|Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
British Dictionary definitions for doom
doom
/ (duːm) /
noun
death or a terrible fate
a judgment or decision
(sometimes capital) another term for the Last Judgment
verb
(tr)to destine or condemn to death or a terrible fate
Word Origin for doom
Old English dōm; related to Old Norse dōmr judgment, Gothic dōms sentence, Old High German tuom condition, Greek thomos crowd, Sanskrit dhāman custom; see do1, deem, deed, -dom