doomed

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doomed

  • /duːmd/

Rhymes with -uːmd

adjective more doomed · most doomed

  1. Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome. Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.

    Similar: cursed, done, undone · Opposite: blessed

  2. archaic Assured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated. Bonny Mary Burnet was lost. She left her father's house at nine o'clock on a Wednesday morning, 17th of September, neatly dressed in a white jerkin and green bonnet, with her hay-raik over her shoulder; and that was the last sight she was doomed ever to see of her native cottage.

    Similar: fateful, foreordained, bashert, destined, doomed, fated, fatidic, predestined, predevote, preordained, weird

Similar: accursed, condemned, cursed, star-crossed, sunk, cussed, damned, dead meat, doomed, done, fey, finished, ill-fated, lost, sentenced, undone · Opposite: blessed, intact, protected

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of doom

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Closest in meaning: dead, lost, cursed, ill-omened, unlucky, ill-fated, unfortunate, ill-starred, damned, sure, unredeemed, certain, unsaved, fated, condemned, screwed

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adj certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome

Españolmalhadado, malfadado, desdichado
हिन्दीमर्तव्य martavya, मर्त्य martya, नास-पीटा nās-pīṭā, कालदष्ट kāldaṣṭ, नश्वर naśvar, रफ़्तनी raftanī
Portuguêscondenado
Françaiscondamné
Deutschverurteilt, verloren
Italianocondannato, spacciato, predestinato, destinato
Ελληνικάκαταραμένος kataraménos
Русскийобречённый obrečónnyj
العربيةمحكوم mahkum, مَحْكُوم maḥkūm

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@misc{doomed_2026,
  title = {doomed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/doomed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}