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Reprobate is a related term of doom.


As an adjective reprobate

is (rare) rejected; cast off as worthless.

As a noun reprobate

is one rejected by god; a sinful person.

As a verb reprobate

is to have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.

As a proper noun doom is

(video games|trademark) a popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the father of the genre.

reprobate

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) , past participle of reprobare.

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
  • * Bible, Jer. vi. 30
  • Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
  • Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
  • * , ll. 696-7,
  • Strength and Art are easily out-done / By Spirits reprobate
  • Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
  • The reprobate criminal sneered at me.
  • * Milton
  • And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One rejected by God; a sinful person.
  • An individual with low morals or principles.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
  • I acknowledge myself for a reprobate , a villain, a traitor to the king.
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
  • "Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) reprobare.

    Verb

    (reprobat)
  • To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.
  • Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
  • To refuse, set aside.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    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

    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.
  • (Milton)
  • (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 *