doomsday event
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An occurrence which causes the end of the universe or which destroys the planet earth; a global cataclysm.
noun
A localized event causing widespread death or destruction within a specific geographical area.
noun
Example Sentences
- "The universe will contract and grow hotter until the doomsday event that astronomers have dubbed "the big crunch.""
- "In this subsection we face the question about the possibility of evading the doomsday event in phantom models of dark energy with interaction, which are inspired in scalar-tensor theories of gravity."
- "Sceptics claim switching on the supercooled magnets could create a doomsday event that would destroy the Earth."
- "A mysterious occurrence late in the story is the historically factual Tunguska Event, a massive Siberian explosion, probably by an asteroid, in the summer of 1908: a doomsday event caused by an arrival from another realm."
- "An earthquake of as much as 7.3 magnitude . . . is the maximum predicted earthquake in Utah, said Johnson. "We could call that a doomsday event.""
- "Protect them against molestation, but if it happens, don't overact and inflate it into a doomsday event."