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doomed

/duːmd/

doomed adjective: assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome. Also the simple past and past participle of doom.

Adjective

doomed (comparative more doomed, superlative most doomed)

  1. Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
    • Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    cursed, done, undone
    Antonyms:
    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.1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet

Also used as

doomed is also the simple past and past participle of doom.

doomed meaning in Hindi, Punjabi, Nepali and Arabic

doomed in Hindi

certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
मर्तव्य martavya, मर्त्य martya, नास-पीटा nās-pīṭā, कालदष्ट kāldaṣṭ, नश्वर naśvar, रफ़्तनी raftanī

doomed in Punjabi

certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
ਤਬਾਹ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤੀ tabāh kar dittī

doomed in Nepali

certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
बर्बाद barbād

doomed in Arabic

certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
محكوم mahkum, مَحْكُوم maḥkūm
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doomed in Myanmar
ခြော hkrau:

Synonyms of doomed

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Antonyms

Forms of doomed

comparativemore doomed
superlativemost doomed

Words formed from doomed

Phrases with doomed

Words that rhyme with doomed

Questions about doomed

What does doomed mean?
Doomed means assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
What is doomed in Hindi?
Doomed in Hindi is मर्तव्य (martavya), मर्त्य (martya), नास-पीटा (nās-pīṭā). See Doomed meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is doomed?
Doomed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce doomed?
Doomed is pronounced /duːmd/.

Words near doomed in the dictionary

  1. doombas
  2. doombur
  3. doomburs
  4. doomcore
  5. doome
  6. doomed
  7. doomed if you do, doomed if you don't
  8. doomedness
  9. doomer
  10. doomerism
  11. doomerisms

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