What is the difference between doomy and doom?
doomy | doom | Derived terms |
Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic
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* 1995 , Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing , Vintage 2007, p. 29:
Destiny, especially terrible.
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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.
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(countable, historical) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
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Death.
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(sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or , an artistic representation of it.
To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
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To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
* Macaulay
(obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
(obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
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(archaic, US, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
Doomy is a derived term of doom.
As a adjective doomy
is filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic.As a noun doom is
(countable|historical) a law.As a verb doom is
to pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.doomy
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Adjective
(er)citation
- Those children playing didn't look like doomy little criminals, once you knew their names.
Anagrams
*doom
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Noun
- Homely household task shall be her doom .
- And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom .
- The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
- They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
- This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
Derived terms
* doom-and-gloomer, gloom-and-doomer * doomer * doomful * doomless * doomlike * doom metal * doomsday * doomsayer * doomster * doomy * entropic doom * foredoom * gloom and doom * predoomAntonyms
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(en verb)- a criminal doomed to death
- Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
- A man of genius doomed to struggle with difficulties.
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- Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?