doom
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Cognates
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.
Inflected forms:
form: dooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dooms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dooming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doomed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Destiny, especially terrible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This, for the night; by day, the web and loom, / And homely houſhold-taſk, ſhall be her doom,
"When should I expect him?" Roy said, resigned to his doom.
We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom.
"After he takes the throne, you will be arrested." / "You lie like your master, Carfax. Your doom is sealed."
gloss: An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: unlike Vincent, he wasn't quite taken in by the outbreak of hopefulness on all sides. After all, nothing about the tanks or the process had been resolved; an air of doom still hung undisturbed over the project.
Such paintings are inherently moody, and Elliott likes that-even as he carefully avoids dictating a specific mood. "Yesterday I painted the last light of the day-the trees looked pink, and the mountain's shadow was coming over them. It created a feeling of nostalgia... or impending doom... or still, quiet, peacefulness. It depends on the viewer's feelings about the scene, not just mine."
Chung was the first of its four picks in Round 2. His arrival might spell doom for Rodney Harrison.
gloss: Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She halted her pacing steps as the ugly significance of Nicholas Caulfield's pending arrival washed over her. Ruin. Destitution. Doom settled like a heavy stone in her chest.
Feeling doom, as we learned in the beautiful folk language of blacks who knew the truth of it, began with a single unexpected oddity — a redbird out of season, hail out of cloudless skies, dogs cowering under the house
I'm taking medications every day; never thinking I would be spiraling into nothing but a nightmare that made me feel doom.
Then the smiling narrator filled me with doom: I was expected to pull my own rip cord. I nearly fainted.
perhaps you do that most rare of things when reading the news: You grin, exhale, stop feeling doom in every crevasse and corner of your body.
gloss: A law.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
examples: "What ye will not that other men should do unto you, that do ye not unto other men." "From this one doom," comments Alfred, "a man may bethink him how he should judge every one rightly: he needs no other doombook."
gloss: A judgment or decision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
examples: And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.
But the day of doome shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is past.
Kings are spoken of as if they had a store of "Themistes" ready to hand for use; but it must be distinctly understood that they are not laws, but judgments, or, to take the exact Teutonic equivalent, "dooms."
when Alfred in turn set himself to the task of stating and interpreting the law of his kingdom, there were already precedents for him to follow, in the written "dooms" (domas) of his predecessors, — themselves but a small portion of the still unwritten custom
Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.
gloss: A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
examples: The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
Appeals were by our ancient law styled falsing of dooms. They were to be entered immediately after doom or sentence was pronounced,
The billiard sharp whom anyone catches / His doom’s extremely hard— / He’s made to dwell— / In a dungeon cell / On a spot that’s always barred.
gloss: Death.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom
The engines were rumbling, missing every now and then, and Rachel leaned back in her seat, prepared to meet her doom somewhere over the Pacific. At least there was a priest at hand -- maybe she could entice him to hear a final confession.
gloss: The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
countable
sometimes
uncountable
gloss: To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a criminal doomed to death
Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
There was certainly plenty of badass Arya before and after—more on that soon—but here was Arya the living, breathing human, outnumbered and petrified of making the one slight wrong move that would doom her.
gloss: To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
pos: verb
examples: A man of genius […] doomed to struggle with difficulties.
gloss: To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: And while we know not that the King of heaven hath not doomed this place our safe retreat
gloss: To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?
gloss: To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
pos: verb
tags: New-England
archaic
gloss: To be extremely pessimistic about something.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
intransitive
examples: Every time I see people dooming over North America I just assume its because they've never seen the parts of it that look like this
You can tell why Democrats were dooming like two months ago
Earlier today I wanted to doom about Gemini 3.1 Pro completely failing ARC-AGI-3.
Related words: deem
-dom
doomsday
doomsaying
damn
Derived words: addoom
Barrel of Doom
crack of doom
day of doom
death-doom
demon duck of doom
Doom
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doom-and-gloom
doom-and-gloomer
doomcore
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doomjobbing
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doom-monger
doom-mongering
doom palm
doomposting
doom rock
doomsayer
doomscroll
doomscroller
doomscrolling
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doomsday
doomsman
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doomsurfing
doomtard
doomward
doomwatch
doomwatcher
doomy
epic doom
funeral doom
gloom and doom
gloom-and-doomer
meet one's doom
misdoom
p(doom)
prophet of doom
pyramid of doom
room of doom
spell doom
trump of doom
wisdom
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: орис
roman: oris
lang: Bulgarian
word: участ
roman: učast
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 厄運 /厄运
roman: èyùn
lang: Finnish
word: loppu
lang: French
word: ruine
lang: French
word: perte
lang: French
word: destin tragique
lang: Hebrew
word: אֲבַדּוֹן
roman: avadón
lang: Hungarian
word: végzet
lang: Italian
word: rovina
lang: Japanese
word: 凶運
roman: kyōun
lang: Japanese
word: 災難
roman: sainan
lang: Kazakh
word: қатыгез тағдыр
roman: qatygez tağdyr
lang: Macedonian
word: су́дбина
roman: súdbina
lang: Macedonian
word: про́паст
roman: própast
lang: Polish
word: zagłada
lang: Polish
word: zguba
lang: Russian
word: у́часть
roman: účastʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: доля
roman: dolja