doom

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an unpleasant or disastrous destiny

   everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it

2. 2
   verb

   make certain of the failure or destruction of

   This decision will doom me to lose my position

3. 3
   noun

   Destiny, especially terrible.

   This, for the night; by day, the web and loom, / And homely houſhold-taſk, ſhall be her doom,

4. 4
   noun

   An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.

   unlike Vincent, he wasn't quite taken in by the outbreak of hopefulness on all sides. After all, nothing about the tanks or the process had been resolved; an air of doom still hung undisturbed over the project.

5. 5
   noun

   Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.

   She halted her pacing steps as the ugly significance of Nicholas Caulfield's pending arrival washed over her. Ruin. Destitution. Doom settled like a heavy stone in her chest.

6. 6
   noun

   A law.

   "What ye will not that other men should do unto you, that do ye not unto other men." "From this one doom," comments Alfred, "a man may bethink him how he should judge every one rightly: he needs no other doombook."

7. 7
   noun

   A judgment or decision.

   And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.

8. 8
   noun

   A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.

   The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.

Etymology

From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos. Cognates Compare Dutch doem (“condemnation, doom; judgement”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish dom (“judgement”), Faroese and Icelandic dómur (“judgement”), Gothic 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃 (dōms, “insight, judgement”); also Ancient Greek θωμός (thōmós, “heap”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian ду́ма (dúma, “thought”), Polish duma (“pride”). Doublet of duma. See also deem.