doom

Meaning

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. (obsolete) A law.
5. (obsolete) A judgment or decision.
6. (obsolete) 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. (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
4. (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
5. 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.

Synonyms

fate

condemn

sentence

destiny

death

💀

fortune

downfall

destine

judgement

ruin

convict

predestination

destruction

doomsday

perdition

demise

denounce

damn

wreck

judge

🧑‍⚖️

lot

condemnation

designate

verdict

call

fall

dying

decree

end of the world

decline

adjudge

predestine

day of reckoning

end

🔚

judgment

decease

kismet

reprobate

curse

loss

termination

adjudicate

predetermine

preordain

proscribe

proscription

punish

referee

ruling

sailing

swear

tail

toll

ultimate

wastage

windup

write-off

anathematise

comminate

Last Judgment

pass judgment

end of life

court verdict

give verdict

written judgment

finding of fact

closing curtain

general verdict

judgment of conviction

killing back

adjudication

anathematize

beat

censure

chance

🎲

close

conviction

damnation

day of doom

decide

decision

degree

departure

deplore

deprecate

desolation

devastation

disappearance

disapprove

doomed

ending

execrate

fatality

final

finale

fine

finis

finish

foredoom

give

gone

havoc

ill fate

judgement day

karma

luck

🍀

maledict

nemesis

passing

penalize

period

Pronounced as (IPA)

/duːm/

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