doom
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doom¹
- /duːm/
Rhymes with -uːm
Where it comes from
From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.
Cognates
Compare Dutch doem (“condemnation, doom; judgement”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish dom (“judgement”), Faroese and Icelandic dómur (“judgement”), Gothic 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃 (dōms, “insight, judgement”); also Ancient Greek θωμός (thōmós, “heap”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian ду́ма (dúma, “thought”), Polish duma (“pride”). Doublet of duma. See also deem.
noun dooms
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Destiny, especially terrible.
This, for the night; by day, the web and loom, / And homely houſhold-taſk, ſhall be her doom,
Similar: lot, orlay, chance, destin, destiny, doom, fatality, fate, foredoom, foreordination, fortune, kismet
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An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
unlike Vincent, he wasn't quite taken in by the outbreak of hopefulness on all sides. After all, nothing about the tanks or the process had been resolved; an air of doom still hung undisturbed over the project.
Opposite: fortune
- Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair. She halted her pacing steps as the ugly significance of Nicholas Caulfield's pending arrival washed over her. Ruin. Destitution. Doom settled like a heavy stone in her chest.
- A law. "What ye will not that other men should do unto you, that do ye not unto other men." "From this one doom," comments Alfred, "a man may bethink him how he should judge every one rightly: he needs no other doombook."
- A judgment or decision. And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.
- A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour. The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
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Death.
They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
Similar: fatality, mortality, death, end, tomb, celestial transfer, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization, demise, dirt nap
- The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
verb dooms · dooming · doomed
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To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.
a criminal doomed to death
Similar: deem, sentence, adjudge, convict, condemn, damn, doom, judge
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To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
A man of genius […] doomed to struggle with difficulties.
Similar: curse, fate, foreordain, preordain
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To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
And while we know not that the King of heaven hath not doomed this place our safe retreat
Similar: adjudge, deem, rule on, adjudicate, arbitrate, doom, hear, judge, settle, try
- To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?
- To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
- To be extremely pessimistic about something. Every time I see people dooming over North America I just assume its because they've never seen the parts of it that look like this
doom²
- /duːm/
Rhymes with -uːm
phrase
- Initialism of didn't organize, only moved; used in compounds designating a miscellaneous collection of items which one has failed to properly organize. I tried to organize my stuff but just ended up making a big doom pile.
Doom³
- /duːm/
Sounds like doom, DOOM · Rhymes with -uːm
Where it comes from
From doom.
proper noun DOOM
- A popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the progenitor of the genre. Origin […] have used the canvas of a Doom-like first-person 3-D engine to paint a master work of their own in this comic-book action game.
DOOM⁴
proper noun
- Alternative form of Doom
phrase
- Alternative form of doom (“didn't organize, only moved”).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: condemn, doomsday, fate, destine, sentence, designate, misery, damned, plight, cursed, woe, pessimism, sadness, curse, sad, sorrow
Translations
Every language
noun undesirable fate
| 日本語 | 凶運 kyōun, 災難 sainan |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 厄運 /厄运 èyùn |
| Français | ruine, perte, destin tragique |
| Italiano | rovina |
| Русский | у́часть účastʹ |
| עברית | אֲבַדּוֹן avadón |
noun destiny, especially terrible
| 日本語 | 運命 unmei |
|---|---|
| Français | destin tragique, destinée, fatalité |
| Deutsch | Schicksal, Verhängnis, Verderben |
| Italiano | sorte, fato, avversità, presagio |
| Русский | рок rok, судьба́ sudʹbá, фа́тум fátum |
| العربية | نَحْس naḥs, شُؤْم šuʔm |
| עברית | דִּין din |
noun feeling of danger
| Français | sentiment de danger |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | drohendes Unheil |
| Italiano | presagio |
| Русский | предчу́вствие predčúvstvije |
noun obsolete: law
| Français | décret |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Bann |
| Italiano | sentenza |
| Русский | Стра́шный суд Strášnyj sud, суд sud, зако́н zakón |
| עברית | דִּין din |
noun obsolete: judgment or decision
| 日本語 | 宣告 senkoku, 判決 hanketsu |
|---|---|
| Français | jugement, décision |
| Deutsch | Urteil, Verbannung |
| Italiano | sentenza, giudizio, decisione |
| Русский | пригово́р prigovór, реше́ние rešénije, декре́т dekrét |
| עברית | דִּין din |
noun obsolete: sentence or penalty
| 日本語 | 刑罰 keibatsu |
|---|---|
| Français | condamnation, jugement, verdict |
| Deutsch | Urteil, Strafe |
| Italiano | sentenza, penalità, condanna |
| Русский | пригово́р prigovór |
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