doom
/duːm/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms dooms dooming doomed
- noun Destiny, especially terrible.
- noun An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
- noun Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
- noun (countable, obsolete) A law.
- noun (countable, obsolete) A judgment or decision.
- noun (countable, obsolete) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
- noun Death. “They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.”
- noun (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
- verb (transitive) To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn. “a criminal doomed to death”
- verb To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
- verb (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
- verb (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
- verb (archaic, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
- verb (intransitive, Internet slang) To be extremely pessimistic about something.
- proper noun (video games) A popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the progenitor of the genre.
Synonyms
lot orlay chance destin destiny fatality fate foredoom foreordination fortune kismet portion predestination predestiny preordination qadar weird wyrd mortality death doomsday day of reckoning end of the world destine designate sentence condemn
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.
Compare Dutch doem (“condemnation, doom; judgement”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish dom (“judgement”), Faroese and Icelandic dómur (“judgement”), Gothic 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃 (dōms, “insight, judgement”); also Ancient Greek θωμός (thōmós, “heap”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian ду́ма (dúma, “thought”), Polish duma (“pride”). Doublet of duma. See also deem.
From doom.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
- noun That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
- verb To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.] Milton.
- verb To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.
Etymology [As. d; akin to OS. d, OHG. tuom, Dan. & Sw. dom, Icel. d, Goth. d, Gr. do, v. t. Do, v. t., and cf. Deem, -dom.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “doom”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details