Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Judgment Day.
- noun An anticipated or feared catastrophic event, especially one on a global scale.
- idiom (til/until) For all time; forever.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The day of the last judgment.
- noun Any day of sentence or condemnation.
- noun [capitalized] The Doomsday Book (see below), or a record similar to it, as the Exon Doomsday, contemporary with it, preserved in Exeter cathedral.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.
- noun The day of the final judgment.
- noun See
Domesday Book .
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- adjective Concerned with or predicting future
universal destruction . - adjective Given to or marked by
forebodings orpredictions of impendingcalamity . - adjective Capable of causing
widespread ortotal destruction;doomsday weapon . - noun The day when
God is expected to judge theworld ;end times . - noun
judgement day ; the day of theFinal Judgment ; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
- noun (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It's too early to know the impact Rita will have on the Gulf Coast refineries or on fuel prices as of yet, but at least one analyst says the nation will probably avoid what he calls a doomsday scenario of gasoline soaring to $5 a gallon.
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I have a book at home, which I call my doomsday-book, where
The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902
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London Olympics with gusto, Meadows is candid about her fear of the Games and the countdown to what she calls "doomsday".
Evening Standard - Home Kiran Randhawa 2011
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Rick Perry, however, is among those countering what he calls doomsday reports and proclamations that, 'Oh my God, it's going to be the end of the world.'
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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The agency's response was to enact what it called a doomsday budget, with 25 to 30 per cent fare increases and substantial service reductions.
Yonkers Tribune 2009
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Many friends and colleagues have been fired or laid off and watching the news or reading the daily paper leads me to believe that doomsday is approaching.
Jeep Incapable Of Selling To Man With $24,000 In Cash - The Consumerist 2009
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Most of all, Beck worries that the end, doomsday, is coming, soon, and it won't be pretty.
Glenn Beck, and something to cry about Al Kamen 2010
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Most of all, Beck worries that the end, doomsday, is coming, soon, and it won't be pretty.
Glenn Beck, and something to cry about Al Kamen 2010
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Can you post a few examples of those short term doomsday predictions?
Evidence of adverse editorial selection by the CRU Email theives EliRabett 2010
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But those short term doomsday scenarios--more active hurricane seasons, droughts etc.--have not materialized, at least not to the point predicted just a short time ago.
Evidence of adverse editorial selection by the CRU Email theives EliRabett 2010
uselessness commented on the word doomsday
June 6, 2066. Will I even still be alive?
February 15, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word doomsday
Where did this date come from? Nostradamus?
October 13, 2007
uselessness commented on the word doomsday
6/6/66. We all gon' die.
October 13, 2007
palooka commented on the word doomsday
If I don't get back to work, it'll be today.
October 13, 2007