Doomed

Quick meaning: Doomed is an adjective meaning Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. simple past and past participle of doom
2. (archaic) Assured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.

Example Sentences

Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.

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.

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.

Synonyms for doomed

Depending on context, synonyms include accursed, condemned, cursed, sunk, cussed, done.

Antonyms for doomed

Common opposites include blessed, intact.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dead, lost, cursed, ill-omened, unlucky, ill-fated.

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