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doomed

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //duːmd//

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

adjective

  1. 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.

  2. 2

    archaicAssured 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.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of doomsimple past and past participle of doom

Forms

comparative
more doomed
superlative
most doomed
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).