doomed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duːmd/

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• Rhymes: -uːmd

Adjective

doomed (comparative more doomed, superlative most doomed)

1. Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.

   Synonyms: cursed, done, undone; see also Thesaurus:doomed

   Antonym: blessed

   Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.

   • 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 4 August 2022:

     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.

2. (archaic) Assured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.

   Synonyms: fateful, foreordained; see also Thesaurus:fated

   • 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:

     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.

Derived terms

• doomedness
• helldoomed
• undoomed

Translations

certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome

Afrikaans: gedoem Arabic: محكوم (mahkum), مَحْكُوم m (maḥkūm) Basque: kondenatuta Burmese: ခြော (hkrau:) Catalan: condemnat (ca) Central Huishui Hmong: itbxhi Dutch: gedoemd (nl) Esperanto: kondamnita (eo) Finnish: tuhoon tuomittu, tuomittu (fi), tuhon oma French: condamné (fr) Galician: condenado German: verurteilt (de), verloren (de) Greek: καταραμένος (el) (kataraménos) Ancient: ὀλέθριος (oléthrios) Hausa: wanzuwa Hindi: मर्तव्य (martavya), मर्त्य (hi) (martya), नास-पीटा (nās-pīṭā), कालदष्ट (hi) (kāldaṣṭ), नश्वर (hi) (naśvar), रफ़्तनी (raftanī), अभिशप्त (hi) (abhiśapt), शापित (hi) (śāpit), स्रापित (hi) (srāpit), शप्त (hi) (śapt), मरणोन्मुख (hi) (marṇonmukh), मरणीय (hi) (marṇīya) Igbo: idikwe Italian: condannato (it), spacciato (it), predestinato (it), destinato (it) Latin: cādūcus Maori: meake Mongolian: хувь тавилан (xuvʹ tavilan) Nepali: बर्बाद (barbād) Polish: skazany (pl) Portuguese: condenado (pt) Punjabi: ਤਬਾਹ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤੀ (tabāh kar dittī) Russian: обречённый (ru) (obrečónnyj) Scottish Gaelic: an dàn Somali: dhegjar Spanish: condenado (es), réprobo (es), maldito (es), imprecado (es), anatematizado (es), damnado, execrado (es), malhadado (es) Ukrainian: прире́чений (pryréčenyj) Zulu: owawuzobhujiswa

Verb

doomed

1. simple past and past participle of doom