Doomed
/duːmd/ adj, verb
adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 people who are destined to die soon wordnet
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of doom form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
"Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction."
- 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 marked for certain death wordnet
- 2 (usually followed by ‘to’) determined by tragic fate wordnet
- 3 marked by or promising bad fortune wordnet
- 4 in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell wordnet
Example
More examples"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."