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doomlike | doom | Derived terms |

Doomlike is a derived term of doom.


As a adjective doomlike

is suggesting doom.

As a noun doom is

(countable|historical) a law.

As a verb doom is

to pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.

doomlike

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Suggesting doom.
  • * 1952 , Herbert Ernest Bates, Love for Lydia?
  • She spoke with a sort of doomlike abandon for which her high, astringent voice was not fitted. "It's done now. Whether anybody likes it or not. ...

    doom

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    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

    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 *