doom

Meanings

Noun

• Destiny, especially terrible.
• An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
• A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
• A law.
• A judgment or decision.
• A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
• Death.
• The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.

Verb

• To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.
• To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
• To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
• To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
• To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

Related

Opposite words

• fortune

Narrower meaning words

• entropic doom
• foredoom
• predoom

Origin

• From Middle English dome, dom, from Old English dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos. Compare West Frisian doem, Dutch doem, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish dom, Icelandic dómur. duma. See also deem.