Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Threatening doom; ominous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of doom or destruction; fraught with doom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Full of condemnation or destructive power.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Full of
condemnation ordestructive power.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And really, while one prefers not to have to cope with these little, um, bumps in the road, we can in fact cope, and it will be fine, and situations that can be kept from being doomful by the application of two pieces of wood and a tire replacement we can afford, well, those could really be a lot worse.
mrissa: Doom averted with two small pieces of wood and a tire. mrissa 2010
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If they feel it makes our house less doomful, that's fine.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway timprov 2010
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And really, while one prefers not to have to cope with these little, um, bumps in the road, we can in fact cope, and it will be fine, and situations that can be kept from being doomful by the application of two pieces of wood and a tire replacement we can afford, well, those could really be a lot worse.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway timprov 2010
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If they feel it makes our house less doomful, that's fine.
mrissa: Doom averted with two small pieces of wood and a tire. mrissa 2010
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Frantic light and doomful dark mark X first a multi-colored zebra, then mark him a ghost.
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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner: All right, if you're going to do it, let's do it right: the Faulkneriest Faulkner, the doomful Southern past rising up in a swirl of consciousness and at least one thousand-word sentence.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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The article begins by evoking Ozymandias, but contains a more contemporary reference point for doomful ruins:
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: And the oil that fed 2009
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But it was only the image of Cheney in my head again, pronouncing some doomful phrases calculated to make anyone hearing him experience an icy chill of nameless dread.
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There's a heart-breaking brevity to its ungainly, wooden, doomful little action.
'Words In Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell' 2008
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I have read his doomful mission by the dim and flaring lamps -
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