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Synonyms for doomed

Grammar : Adj
Spell : doom
Phonetic Transcription : dum

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Définition of doomed

Origin :
  • Old English dom "law, judgment, condemnation," from Proto-Germanic *domaz (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian dom, Old Norse domr, Old High German tuom, Gothic doms "judgment, decree"), from PIE root *dhe- (cf. Sanskrit dhaman- "law," Greek themis "law," Lithuanian dome "attention"), literally "to set, put" (see factitious). A book of laws in Old English was a dombec. Modern sense of "fate, ruin, destruction" is c.1600, from the finality of the Christian Judgment Day.
  • adj condemned, hopeless
Example sentences :
  • They might only be cruelly holding out hope to one of the doomed.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • We are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • In the hour of triumph the government was doomed to receive a stunning blow.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • But there, as well as in the House, the Irish Establishment was doomed.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • It seemed too bright for a thing formed of dust, and doomed to crumble into dust again.
  • Extract from : « Sylph Etherege » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • In this ceremony it was known that John Castell had been doomed to play a leading part.
  • Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
  • Why should his spirit be doomed to live on in a ruined home?
  • Extract from : « The Comrade In White » by W. H. Leathem
  • Thus are they doomed to destruction, by a Lilliputian race of Vandals.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • "To be registered, as doomed to destruction," returned Defarge.
  • Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
  • It appeared now as if the Falconer family were doomed to be his ruin.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

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