doom
/duːm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.81 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "This, for the night; by day, the web and loom, / And homely houſhold-taſk, ſhall be her doom,"
- ""When should I expect him?" Roy said, resigned to his doom."
- "We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom."
- ""After he takes the throne, you will be arrested." / "You lie like your master, Carfax. Your doom is sealed.""
- "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."
- "Such paintings are inherently moody, and Elliott likes that-even as he carefully avoids dictating a specific mood. "Yesterday I painted the last light of the day-the trees looked pink, and the mountain's shadow was coming over them. It created a feeling of nostalgia... or impending doom... or still, quiet, peacefulness. It depends on the viewer's feelings about the scene, not just mine.""
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.