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)
- 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
- Antonyms:
- blessed
- 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
- Synonyms:
- fateful, foreordained, bashert, destined, fated, fatidic, predestined, predevote, preordained, weird
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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Forms of doomed
| comparative | more doomed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most doomed |
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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/.
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