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Definition: Doomed |
DoomedAdjective1. Marked for certain death; "the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed". 2. (Christianity) in danger of the eternal punishment of hell; "poor damned souls". 3. Marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott. 4. (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate; "doomed to unhappiness"; "fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination". Noun1. People who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "doomed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: DoomedSynonyms: cursed (adj), damned (adj), fated (adj), ill-fated (adj), ill-omened (adj), ill-starred (adj), unlucky (adj), unredeemed (adj), unsaved (adj), lost (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Necessity | Verb: lie under a necessity; befated, be doomed, be destined; in for, under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate; n. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be unable to help. |
Pain | Unfortunate; (hapless); to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded; fey. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Doomed |
| English words defined with "doomed": conception, creation, Cursedness ♦ disappointment, done for ♦ goner ♦ Helldoomed ♦ ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred ♦ letdown, lost ♦ ruined ♦ sunk ♦ The Wandering Jew ♦ undone, unlucky ♦ washed-up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "doomed": Androcles and the Lion ♦ Berg Folk ♦ Carmilhan, Compound Subjects ♦ Embalm ♦ Glasgow Arms, Goose and Gridiron, Guido ♦ Nastrond ♦ Shields ♦ Utter. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If he could not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury) Either way your planet is doomed! Doomed (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) We're doomed. (Dad's Army; writing credit: David Croft; Jimmy Perry) The Earth is doomed! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) This whole beautiful country, to which we have given our souls, is utterly doomed. It's going to be wiped out of human memory (Unhold, Der; writing credit: Michel Tournier; Jean-Claude Carrière) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Legion of the Doomed (1958) Doomed Caravan (1941) Island of Doomed Men (1940) Doomed to Die (1940) The Doomed Battalion (1932) | |
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 | Clock tower; midnight; wolf; witching hour; ominous; apocalyptic; augural; baleful; baneful; clouded; dangerous; dark; dire; direful; dismal; doomed; doomful; fateful; fearful; forbidding; gloomy; grim; haunting; hostile; ill-boding; ill-fated; impending. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Iris Murdoch | We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. |
Oscar Wilde | Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say. |
Virgil | Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde. |
William Ellery Channing | Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. |
William James | We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | For how can people, when once they understand their system, fail to see in it the best possible plan of the best possible state of society? Hence, they reject all political, and especially all revolutionary, action; they wish to attain their ends by peaceful means, and endeavour, by small experiments, necessarily doomed to failure, and by the force of example, to pave the way for the new social Gospel. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You would have said he was hesitating between two realms, that of the doomed and that of the saved |
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Business | This government was severely handicapped and eventually doomed by economic problems and the inherent weakness of the Weimar state. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutoeus maximus. |
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Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | If this reasonable expectation be not realized, I frankly confess that one of your leading hopes is doomed to disappointment, and that my efforts in a very important particular must result in a humiliating failure. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Their homecoming was deferred and seemed doomed to be ignored. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. |
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| "Doomed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 78.84% of the time. "Doomed" is used about 566 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 78.84% | 447 | 12,980 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.81% | 101 | 32,488 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 3.17% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 566 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "doomed": be doomed to ♦ doomed to failure ♦ the doomed train. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
anthem for a doomed youth | 24 |
doomed megalopolis | 7 |
doomed | 5 |
doomed it repeat | 5 |
doomed tribute | 5 |
wilfred owen anthem for doomed youth | 5 |
doomed oblivion | 3 |
doomed history it repeat | 3 |
bataan corregidor doomed ghost great raid rescuing | 2 |
doomed from history it learn not repeat those who | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "doomed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që ka për të mbaruar keq, i dënuar (con, condemned, convict, convicted, damned, damning, fey). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجكوم عليه بالفشل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обречен на смърт (fey). (various references) | |
Chinese | 注定 (Destine, Destined, Destining, Dooming). (various references) | |
Czech | zahubený. (various references) | |
Finnish | tuomittu (condemned), perikatoon tuomittu. (various references) | |
German | verloren (astray, forlorn, gone, irrecoverable, irredeemable, lost, prodigal, vain, wasted). (various references) | |
Greek | καταδικασμένοσ, καταδικασμένος (condemned, convicted, convicted of). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kudarcra ítélt. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 百年目 (the hundredth year). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひゃくね"め (the hundredth year). (various references) | |
Korean | 운명을 하". (various references) | |
Manx | dooinney deyrit (doomed man). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oomedday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sentenciado (condemned, convict), condenado (condemned, convict, convicted, damned, darn, fated, tarnation). (various references) | |
Romanian | osândit (accursed, convict, convicted, damned, sentenced). (various references) | |
Russian | обреченный (fated, fey). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proklet (accursed, accurst, blasted, condemned, confounded, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, fey, maledictory, reprobate). (various references) | |
Spanish | predestinado (fated, foredoomed, predestinate, predestined), condenado (accursed, accurst, condemned, convicted, cotton-picking, damned, darned, doom, fated, indicted, stricken). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งถูกกำหน"ไว้. (various references) | |
Turkish | mecbur (bound, compelled, forced), kaderine terk edilmiş, kader mahkumu, eli mahkum, ölüme mahkum. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | приречений (fated, fey). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | debita, debitam, debitos, debitum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "doomed": foredoomed. (additional references) | |
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"Doomed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dazomet, ddomed, diomed, Diomedea, Dioneda, Dodoma, doeme, domel, domet, Domett, domey, Dommel, donde, Doned, doones, doored, douma, Doumer, dumbed, dumet, duoed, goomed, oomed, toomed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "doomed" (pronounced duw"md) |
| 3 | -uw" m d | assumed, bloomed, boomed, consumed, loomed, entombed, exhumed, fumed, groomed, perfumed, presumed, reassumed, resumed, zoomed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-m-o-o" | |
-1 letter: domed, mooed. | |
-2 letters: demo, dodo, dome, doom, eddo, mode, mood. | |
-3 letters: doe, dom, med, mod, moo, odd, ode. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, em, me, mo, od, oe, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-m-o-o" | |
+1 letter: dogedom. | |
+2 letters: dogedoms, outmoded. | |
+3 letters: bedroomed, duodecimo, sodomized. | |
+4 letters: coembodied, compounded, decomposed, decompound, disbosomed, discommode, doomsdayer, duodecimos, foredoomed, incommoded, maidenhood, motorcaded. | |
+5 letters: commodified, demodulator, discommoded, discommodes, discomposed, dolomitized, doomsdayers, loudmouthed, maidenhoods, mollycoddle, pompadoured, pseudomonad, rodomontade, warmblooded. | |
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