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In obsolete terms the difference between doom and hell

is that doom is to ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine while hell is a place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.

As nouns the difference between doom and hell

is that doom is destiny, especially terrible while hell is a place or situation of great suffering in life.

As proper nouns the difference between doom and hell

is that doom is a popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the father of the genre while hell is in various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death.

As a verb doom

is to pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.

As an interjection hell is

Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.

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 *

    hell

    English

    (wikipedia hell)

    Alternative forms

    * (Christianity) Hell * *

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death
    • Do Muslims believe that all non-Muslims go to hell ?
  • (Abrahamic religions, uncountable) The place where devils live and where sinners are tortured after death
    • May you rot in hell !
  • * 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost
    • Better to reign in Hell' than serve in ' Heaven .
  • * 1916 , James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    • Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.

    Synonyms

    * (euphemisms for Christian place for damned souls after death) Hades, heck, infernal region, inferno, netherworld, underworld * (Mormonism) Spirit]] [[prison, Prison

    Antonyms

    * (sense) heaven

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable, hyperbole) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
    • My new boss is making my job a hell .
    I went through hell to get home today.
  • * 1879 , General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy
    • There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell .
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  • (countable) A place for gambling.
  • * W. Black
    • a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless
  • * 1907 , (Joseph Conrad), The Secret Agent
  • An extremely hot place.
    • You don't have a snowball's chance in hell .
  • (Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun)
    • I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.
    What the hell is wrong with you?
    He says he's going home early? Like hell he is.
  • (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
    • (Hudibras)
  • In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

    • Derived terms

    * as hell * forty minutes of hell * hell and half of Georgia * hella * hellagood * hell-fire * hell for leather * hell hath no fury like a woman scorned * hellish * hell on earth * hell on wheels * hell's delight * hellspawn * hell to pay * hell week * like hell * living hell * no screaming hell * the hell * the hell out of * the hell with it * to hell with * what the hell

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
    • Oh, hell ! I got another parking ticket.
    • Hell , yeah!

    See also

    * damn * heck English intensifiers English swear words ----