doomy
noun
1.
fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
2.
ruin; death: to fall to one's doom.
3.
a judgment, decision, or sentence, especially an unfavorable one: The judge pronounced the defendant's doom.
4.
the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.
5.
Obsolete. a statute, enactment, or legal judgment.
verb (used with object)
6.
to destine, especially to an adverse fate.
7.
to pronounce judgment against; condemn.
8.
to ordain or fix as a sentence or fate.
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doom (duːm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | death or a terrible fate |
| 2. | a judgment or decision |
| 3. | (sometimes capital) another term for the Last Judgment |
| —vb | |
| 4. | (tr) to destine or condemn to death or a terrible fate |
| [Old English dōm; related to Old Norse dōmr judgment, Gothic dōms sentence, Old High German tuom condition, Greek thomos crowd, Sanskrit dhāman custom; see | |
| doomy (ˈduːmɪ) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | despondent or pessimistic |
| 2. | depressing, frightening, or chilling |
| 'doomily | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
doom
O.E. dom "law, judgment, condemnation," from P.Gmc. *domaz, from PIE root *dhe- (cf. Skt. dhaman- "law," Gk. themis "law," Lith. dome "attention"), lit. "to set, put" (see factitious). A book of laws in O.E. was a dombec. Modern sense of "fate, ruin, destruction" is c.1600,
from the finality of the Christian Judgment Day. Related: Doomed.
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