Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inevitable destruction or ruin.
- noun A decision or judgment, especially an official condemnation to a severe penalty.
- noun Judgment Day.
- noun A statute or ordinance, especially one in force in Anglo-Saxon England.
- transitive verb To condemn to ruination or death.
- transitive verb To cause to come to an inevitable bad end; destine to end badly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To judge; form a judgment upon.
- To condemn to punishment; consign by a decree or sentence; pronounce sentence or judgment on; destine: as, a criminal doomed to death; we are doomed to suffer for our errors.
- To ordain as a penalty; decree.
- To tax by estimate or at discretion, as on the failure of a taxpayer to make a statement of his taxable property.
- noun Judgment or decision; specifically, a decision determining fate or fortune; fateful decision or decree: originally in a neutral sense, but now generally implying an adverse decision; as, the court pronounced doom upon the culprits; to fall by doom of battle.
- noun Fate decreed or determined; fixed fortune; irrevocable destiny.
- noun Judgment or opinion; discernment.
- noun The last judgment. See
doomsday .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
- noun That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
- noun Ruin; death.
- noun obsolete Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
- transitive verb obsolete To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
- transitive verb To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence.
- transitive verb To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
- transitive verb New England To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
- transitive verb To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable, historical A law.
- noun countable, historical A
judgment ordecision - noun countable, historical A
sentence orpenalty for an illegality or type of illegality. - noun
Death ; an adverse or terriblefate ,end . - noun
Destiny , especially adverse. - noun An impending severe problem or danger that seems inevitable.
- noun A feeling of
danger , impending danger, darkness or despair. - noun sometimes capitalized The
Last Judgment ; or, an artistic representation of it. - verb To
condemn to a terriblefate oroutcome
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
- verb make certain of the failure or destruction of
- verb pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
- verb decree or designate beforehand
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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III. i.185 (151,7) [I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom] _To fly his doom_, used for _by flying_, or _in flying_, is a gallicism.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Framed for the murder of his greatest competitor, all that stands between industrialist Howard Stark and certain doom is his young son, Tony … and his strange alter-ego — Iron Man!
Marvel Solicitations for January 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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For awhile, it seems as though certain doom is descending upon Barrow, Alaska, and the mood will blanket the entire picture.
“30 Days of Night” feels as long as its title » Scene-Stealers 2007
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An earnest of their doom is their having been cast out of heaven, being already restricted to "the darkness of this present world," the "air" that surrounds the earth, their peculiar element now.
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She recommended not paying attention to what she calls doom-and-gloom hype.
Berks county news 2008
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“The sense of impending doom is covered in exposition, though, when it should be crystal clear.”
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The sense of impending doom is covered in exposition, though, when it should be crystal clear.
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One day one of the new Watchers, (insert name here) Observes a murder, and racked with pity for the human victim, intervenes, rescuing the human from certain doom (he does it in human form, before the victim sees).
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Gurion Omega’s Second Review Forum 2009
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But over time, his former crew comes to his aid and, realizing his visions portend certain doom unless they do something, team up with their former Captain to save the Galaxy from certain destruction.
5 Lessons Tiger Woods Could’ve Learned from Watching Star Trek | Fandomania 2010
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More remarkably is the tale of Elvita Adams who leapt to her anticipated doom from the 86th floor in 1979, only to be blown by a gust of wind back onto the 85th floor.
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What is a doom loop? You might be familiar with the term in another context: urban doom loops. That has made headlines because experts are concerned some of America’s largest cities risk falling into an economic doom loop, which is a negative spiral that results from increasing remote work that leads to urban businesses to close and lose tax revenue. It’s what we saw in San Francisco. But for the most part, a doom loop is described as a scenario in which one negative thought leads to the next, and the next, in a continuous loop. One negative event triggers another, which can compound the first or trigger the next. Andrew Shatte, chief knowledge officer, and co-founder of stress management app meQuilibrium, describes it as “vicious cycles“ that focus on the negative rather than the positive. “People are prone to negative thinking and doom loops as part of their survival strategy,” said Shatte, “Most of us have had times when we woke up at 3 a.m., ruminating over all the terrible things that could come our way. Very few of us have thoughts of unicorns and rainbows at that time of night.”
WTF is a doom loop and why is it harmful in the workplace? Cloey Callahan 2023
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Suddenly, so-called superstar cities—such as New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, which boomed throughout the 2010s—were facing what experts called an “urban doom loop.” The more people moved away, the worse things would get; the worse things got, the more people would move away; and so on, in an endless spiral that would do to superstar cities what the decline of the auto industry did to Detroit.
Whatever Happened to the Urban Doom Loop? Rogé Karma 2024
sonofgroucho commented on the word doom
Then, of course, there's doomsday.
January 7, 2007
oroboros commented on the word doom
Mood in reverse.
July 22, 2007
antihero commented on the word doom
goes with harbinger?
October 13, 2007
brtom commented on the word doom
I am forced, against all my hopes and inclinations, to regard the history of my people here as the progress of the doom of what I value most in the world: the life and health of the earth, the peacefulness of human communities and households. Wendell Berry "A Native Hill"
July 19, 2008
bilby commented on the word doom
The bread and the wine had a doom,
For these were the host of the air;
He sat and played in a dream
Of her long dim hair.
- W.B. Yeats, 'The Host of the Air'.
September 18, 2009