doom

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Destiny, especially terrible.
2. (countable, uncountable) An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
3. (countable, uncountable) Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
4. (countable, obsolete) A law.
5. (countable, obsolete) A judgment or decision.
6. (countable, obsolete) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
7. (countable, uncountable) Death.
8. (capitalized, countable, sometimes, uncountable) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.

Verb

1. (transitive) To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.
2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
3. (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
4. (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
5. (New-England, archaic) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

Phrase

Initialism of didn't organize, only moved; used in compounds designating a miscellaneous collection of items which one has failed to properly organize.

Opposite of

fortune

Synonyms

fate

condemn

sentence

destiny

fortune

death

💀

downfall

destine

convict

ruin

predestination

destruction

judgement

demise

denounce

wreck

condemnation

damn

doomsday

lot

judge

🧑‍⚖️

perdition

designate

curse

decree

call

fall

adjudge

end of the world

decline

predestine

dying

reprobate

termination

decease

loss

judgment

day of reckoning

kismet

adjudicate

end

🔚

verdict

desolation

deprecate

deplore

departure

finale

final

degree

conviction

Translations

condenar

condamner

fato

ondergang

noodlot

lot

Untergang

fatum

destin

Schicksal

destino

Verhängnis

mort

ruine

hado

Pronounced as (IPA)

/duːm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: doom

Inherited from Old English: dōm

Cognate with Western Frisian: doem

Cognate with Dutch: doem

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Norwegian: -

Cognate with Swedish: dom

Cognate with Icelandic: dómur

In summary

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 West Frisian doem, Dutch doem, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish dom, Icelandic dómur. Doublet of duma. See also deem.