English Explanatory Dictionary

doom

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Destiny, especially terrible.
  2. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
  3. Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
  4. A law.
  5. A judgment or decision.
  6. A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
  7. Death.
  8. The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
verb
  1. To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.
  2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
  3. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
  4. To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  5. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
phrase
  1. Initialism of didn't organize, only moved; used in compounds designating a miscellaneous collection of items which one has failed to properly organize.
name
  1. A popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the progenitor of the genre.
name
  1. Alternative form of Doom.
phrase
  1. Alternative form of doom (“didn't organize, only moved”).

Pronunciation

/duːm/ en-us-doom.ogg

Word forms

doom dooms dooming doomed

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.

Synonyms

lot orlay chance destin destiny doom fatality fate foredoom foreordination fortune kismet portion predestination predestiny preordination qadar weird wyrd mortality death tomb celestial transfer decease decomposition defunction dematerialization demise dirt nap exit expiration liquidation passing quietus repose sleep of the just sunset the big sleep crash downfall fall (the) bane (the) end deem sentence adjudge convict condemn damn judge curse foreordain preordain rule on adjudicate arbitrate hear settle try penalize

Antonyms

fortune

Related words

deem -dom doomsday doomsaying damn DOOM

Derived words

addoom Barrel of Doom crack of doom day of doom death-doom demon duck of doom Doom doom and gloom doom-and-gloom doom-and-gloomer doomcore doomer doom folk doomful doomism doomist doomless doomlike doom loop doom metal doom-monger doom-mongering doom palm doomposting doom rock doomsayer doomscroll doomscroller doom scrolling doomscrolling doomsday doomsman doomsome doom spending doomster 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 Doom clone

Translations

Bulgarian: орис Bulgarian: участ Chinese Mandarin: 厄運 /厄运 Finnish: loppu French: ruine French: perte French: destin tragique Hebrew: אֲבַדּוֹן Hungarian: végzet Italian: rovina Japanese: 凶運 Japanese: 災難 Kazakh: қатыгез тағдыр Macedonian: су́дбина Macedonian: про́паст Polish: zagłada Polish: zguba Russian: у́часть Ukrainian: доля
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