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DOOMED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does doomed mean?
• DOOMED (noun)
The noun DOOMED has 1 sense:
1. people who are destined to die soon
Familiarity information: DOOMED used as a noun is very rare.
• DOOMED (adjective)
The adjective DOOMED has 4 senses:
1. marked for certain death
2. in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
3. marked by or promising bad fortune
4. (usually followed by 'to') determined by tragic fate
Familiarity information: DOOMED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who are destined to die soon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
doomed; lost
Context example:
the agony of the doomed was in his voice
Hypernyms ("doomed" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Derivation:
doomed (marked for certain death)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked for certain death
Context example:
the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Derivation:
doomed (people who are destined to die soon)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
Synonyms:
cursed; damned; doomed; unredeemed; unsaved
Context example:
poor damned souls
Similar:
lost (spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed)
Domain category:
Christian religion; Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Marked by or promising bad fortune
Synonyms:
doomed; ill-fated; ill-omened; ill-starred; unlucky
Context example:
the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons
Similar:
unfortunate (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'to') determined by tragic fate
Synonyms:
doomed; fated
Context example:
fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination
Similar:
Context examples
Otherwise the effort was doomed to failure.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
However, the sheer number of what the scientists think were doomed octopuses and their eggs suggests that there's a better habitat nearby.
(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)
It was doomed to be a day of trial.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
And yet when Utterson remarked on his ill looks, it was with an air of great firmness that Lanyon declared himself a doomed man.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She was not doomed, however, to be long in ignorance of his measures.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I wish I had attended to it—but—(with a sinking voice and a heavy sigh) I seem to have been doomed to blindness.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
At the heart of the Saturn Nebula lies the doomed star, visible in this image, which is in the process of becoming a white dwarf.
(The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula, ESO)
Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Long John's eyes burned in his head as he took the chart, but by the fresh look of the paper I knew he was doomed to disappointment.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The shark dropped back into the sea, helpless, yet with its full strength, doomed—to lingering starvation—a living death less meet for it than for the man who devised the punishment.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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