Doomed

//duːmd// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    people who are destined to die soon wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of doom form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.

    "Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction."

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

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    marked for certain death wordnet
  2. 2
    (usually followed by ‘to’) determined by tragic fate wordnet
  3. 3
    marked by or promising bad fortune wordnet
  4. 4
    in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell wordnet

Synonyms

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fatedcurseddoneundoneaccursedaccursed

Example

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"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

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