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Doom vs Doof - What's the difference?

doom | doof |

As nouns the difference between doom and doof

is that doom is destiny, especially terrible while doof is a simpleton.

As a verb doom

is to pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.

As a proper noun Doom

is a popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the father of the genre.

doom

English

Noun

  • Destiny, especially terrible.
  • * Dryden
    • Homely household task shall be her doom .
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  • An ill fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
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  • A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
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  • (countable, historical) A law.
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  • (countable, historical) A judgment or decision.
  • * Fairfax
    • And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom .
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  • (countable, historical) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
  • * J. R. Green
    • The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
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  • Death.
    • They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
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  • (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or , an artistic representation of it.

    • Derived terms

    * doom-and-gloomer, gloom-and-doomer * doomer * doomful * doomless * doomlike * doom metal * doomsday * doomsayer * doomster * doomy * entropic doom * foredoom * gloom and doom * predoom

    Related terms

    * (l)

    Antonyms

    * (ill fate) fortune

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
    • a criminal doomed to death
  • * Dryden
    • Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
  • To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
  • * Macaulay
    • A man of genius doomed to struggle with difficulties.
  • (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
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  • (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?
  • (archaic, US, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

    • Anagrams

    * mood

    See also

    * doomsday * doomsaying *

    doof

    English

    Etymology 1

    From dufus

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, slang) A simpleton.

    • Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic, from the sound of a bass drum.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, slang) A type of music with pronounced bass typically associated with the modified car scene; doof-doof.
  • (Australia) An outdoor dance party, held in bushland in a remote area or on the outskirts of a city.
  • * 2004 , Graham St John (editor), Rave Culture and Religion , page 138,
    • Dynamics of play and creativity are a prominent catalyst of social relations at both doofs and raves.
  • * 2006 , Christopher Hugh Partridge, The Re-Enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture , Volume 2, page 110,
    • Similar themes emerged in the ‘doofs ’ of Australian rave culture.
  • * 2007 , Australian National University Dept of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Aboriginal History , Volume 31, page 76,
    • The bush doof is a unique product of post-rave culture and is particularly suited to the expansive Australian landscape.
    Derived terms
    * doof-doof
    See also
    * (wikipedia "doof")

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