doom

nounfate or decision, usually unpleasant

Antonyms for doom

Word Origin & History

Old English dom "law, judgment, condemnation," from Proto-Germanic *domaz (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian dom, Old Norse domr, Old High German tuom, Gothic doms "judgment, decree"), from PIE root *dhe- (cf. Sanskrit dhaman- "law," Greek themis "law," Lithuanian dome "attention"), literally "to set, put" (see factitious). A book of laws in Old English was a dombec. Modern sense of "fate, ruin, destruction" is c.1600, from the finality of the Christian Judgment Day.

Example Sentences fordoom

"I don't see anything like a doom about it, my dear," said he.

His voice had become weighty with authority and measured with doom.

My doom is fixed—fixed by my own folly—my own rash, headstrong folly.

The star that guides it is our guide, and in the tempest that menaces we behold our own doom!

In the fire of last night the hand of Allah wrote their doom.

But the prince was to have his day of triumph before the doom.

It was a real miracle that on that day he escaped from the doom intended for him.

He went to his doom as the foolish moth flies to the candle.

All complaint of my own doom had vanished, now that I began to do her the justice of love.

Neither of the others had done so, since their doom was pronounced.

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