doomed

adj — 2 senses

doomed

adj

/duːmd/

1

Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.

  • Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
  • Moments later, Courageous sheers out of line, smoke and steam venting through a massive hole in her side, the shells having blasted right through whatever excuse for armor was present and detonated amidst the boiler rooms. She is doomed.2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 15:10 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
2

Archaic Assured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.

  • Bonny Mary Burnet was lost. She left her father's house at nine o'clock on a Wednesday morning, 17th of September, neatly dressed in a white jerkin and green bonnet, with her hay-raik over her shoulder; and that was the last sight she was doomed ever to see of her native cottage.1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
Synonyms
accursed, condemned, cursed, sunk, cussed, damned, dead meat, doomed, done, fey, finished, ill-fated, lost, sentenced, undone
Antonyms
blessed, intact, protected
Derived terms
doomedness, helldoomed, undoomed
Hypernyms
fated
Hyponyms
godforsaken

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