Meanings
comparative more doomed · superlative most doomed
- Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
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Moments later, Courageous sheers out of line, smoke and steam venting through a massive hole in her side, the shells having blasted right through whatever excuse for armor was present and detonated amidst the boiler rooms. She is doomed.
2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 15:10 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022 - archaicAssured 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.
1828, James Hogg, Mary BurnetSynonyms: fateful, foreordained, bashert, destined, fated, fateful, fatidic, foreordained
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of doom
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveAssured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
adjectiveAssured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivemarked for certain death
adjectivein danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
adjectivemarked by or promising bad fortune
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Afrikaans gedoem
- gedoemcertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Ancient Greek ὀλέθριος
- ὀλέθριος (oléthrios)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Arabic محكوم, مَحْكُوم
- محكوم (mahkum)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- مَحْكُوم (maḥkūm)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Basque kondenatuta
- kondenatutacertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Catalan condemnat
- condemnatcertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Dutch gedoemd
- gedoemdcertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Esperanto kondamnita
- kondamnitacertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Finnish tuhoon tuomittu, tuomittu
- tuhoon tuomittucertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- tuomittucertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- tuhon omacertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
French condamné
- condamnécertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
German verurteilt, verloren
- verurteiltcertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- verlorencertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Greek καταραμένος
- καταραμένος (kataraménos)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Hindi मर्तव्य, मर्त्य
- मर्तव्य (martavya)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- मर्त्य (martya)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- नास-पीटा (nās-pīṭā)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- कालदष्ट (kāldaṣṭ)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- नश्वर (naśvar)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- रफ़्तनी (raftanī)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- अभिशप्त (abhiśapt)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- शापित (śāpit)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- स्रापित (srāpit)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- शप्त (śapt)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- मरणोन्मुख (marṇonmukh)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- मरणीय (marṇīya)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Italian condannato, spacciato
- condannatocertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- spacciatocertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- predestinatocertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- destinatocertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Latin cādūcus
- cādūcuscertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Māori meake
- meakecertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Polish skazany
- skazanycertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Portuguese condenado
- condenadocertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Punjabi ਤਬਾਹ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤੀ
- ਤਬਾਹ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤੀ (tabāh kar dittī)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Russian обречённый
- обречённый (obrečónnyj)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Scottish Gaelic an dàn
- an dàncertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Spanish malhadado, malfadado
- malhadadocertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- malfadadocertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
- desdichadocertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Ukrainian прире́чений
- прире́чений (pryréčenyj)certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Zulu owawuzobhujiswa
- owawuzobhujiswacertain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
doomed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doomed
“doomed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doomed. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “doomed,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doomed.
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