doomnoun [ U ]
uk/duːm/us/duːm/C2 death, destruction, or any very bad situation that cannot be avoided:
A sense of doom hung over the entire country.
The newspapers are always full of doom and gloom (= bad news and unhappiness) these days.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Inevitable
- all roads lead to Rome idiom
- automatic
- automatically
- be (only) a matter of time idiom
- be damned if you do and damned if you don't idiom
- be nothing for it idiom
- be part and parcel of sth idiom
- damned
- fate
- fated
- implacable
- inalienable
- inexorable
- it can't be helped idiom
- matter
- relentless
- remorseless
- seal
- seal sb's fate idiom
- unstoppable
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doomverb [ T usually passive ]
uk/duːm/us/duːm/to make someone or something certain to do or experience something unpleasant, or to make something bad certain to happen:
[ + to infinitive ] Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past?
Mounting debts doomed the factory to closure.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Inevitable
- all roads lead to Rome idiom
- automatic
- automatically
- be (only) a matter of time idiom
- be damned if you do and damned if you don't idiom
- be nothing for it idiom
- be part and parcel of sth idiom
- damned
- fate
- fated
- implacable
- inalienable
- inexorable
- it can't be helped idiom
- matter
- relentless
- remorseless
- seal
- seal sb's fate idiom
- unstoppable
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