doomsday
Syllables: dooms·day/ˈduːmz.deɪ/
doomsday noun: the day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.
Noun
doomsday (countable and uncountable, plural doomsdays)
- The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.
- Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.
- Any day of great death and destruction; end of the world; an apocalypse.
- Any of the memorable dates used in the doomsday rule for computing weekdays from dates.
Adjective
doomsday (not comparable)
- Concerned with or predicting future universal destruction.
- Given to or marked by forebodings or predictions of impending calamity.
- The Sages chose to end the haftarah with this message of hope, in contrast to the episode's last verse with its doomsday warning that "if you persist in your wrongdoing, both you and your king shall be swept away."2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 867
- Capable of causing widespread or total destruction.
doomsday meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
doomsday in Hindi
- day when God is expected to judge the world
- क़यामत qayāmat
- any day of decisive judgement
- क़यामत qayāmat
doomsday in Tamil
- day when God is expected to judge the world
- ஊழிநாள் ūḻināḷ
doomsday in Urdu
- day when God is expected to judge the world
- قیامت qayāmat
- any day of decisive judgement
- قیامت qayāmat
doomsday in Bengali
- day when God is expected to judge the world
- কেয়ামত keẏamot
More languagesFewer languages
- doomsday in Kannada
- ಜಗತ್ತಿನ ಪ್ರಳಯದಿನ, ಅಂತಿಮ ದಿನ
- doomsday in Punjabi
- قیامت qiyāmat, ਕਿਆਮਤ kiāmat, ਪਰਲੋ parlo, ਆਖਰ ākhar
- doomsday in Assamese
- কিয়ামত kiamot
- doomsday in Arabic
- يَوْم الْقِيَامَة yawm al-qiyāma, يَوْم الْحِسَاب yawm al-ḥisāb
- doomsday in Indonesian
- hari kiamat
- doomsday in Persian
- روز حساب ruz-e hesâb
- doomsday in Vietnamese
- ngày tận thế
- doomsday in Myanmar
- တရားစီရင်မည့်နေ့ ta.ra:cirangmany.ne.
Examples of doomsday in a sentence
- The doomsday bomb is terrifying. It puts all other nukes to shame.
- The Republicans haven't always been on the mark with doomsday predictions about Democratic presidents.
- Sceptics claim switching on the supercooled magnets could create a doomsday event that would destroy the Earth.
Synonyms of doomsday
Forms of doomsday
| plural | doomsdays |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | domesday |
Origin of doomsday
From Middle English domes + dai, from Old English dom (“judgment”) + dæg (“day”). Equivalent to doom + -s- + day. Compare Old Norse dómsdagr (“judgement day, doomsday”).
Words formed from doomsday
Phrases with doomsday
Questions about doomsday
- What does doomsday mean?
- Doomsday means the day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.
- What is doomsday in Hindi?
- Doomsday in Hindi is क़यामत (qayāmat). See Doomsday meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is doomsday?
- Doomsday can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce doomsday?
- Doomsday is pronounced /ˈduːmz.deɪ/.
- What is the plural of doomsday?
- The plural of doomsday is doomsdays.
Words near doomsday in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: doomsday (page history and authors); doomsday (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); قیامت (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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