Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

doomsday device

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English

Syllables: dooms-day de-vice
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hypothetical weapon (often a bomb) programmed to automatically be used in response to certain attacks, usually with very dire consequences (such as the annihilation of the world).

noun

An extremely powerful weapon.

noun

Alternative spelling of doomsday device.

Example Sentences

"Near-synonyms: doomsday bomb, Dead Hand"
"For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device."
"Of course, Henry M. Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary, is calling for merging the S.E.C. with the easygoing Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in the financial equivalent of setting off a Doomsday Device."

Etymology

Coined as Doomsday Machine by military strategist Herman Kahn.

Inflected Forms

doomsday devices (plural)

Phrases

doomsday event Dr. Strangelove extinction event nuclear deterrent

Frequently Paired Words

doomsday event Dr. Strangelove extinction event nuclear deterrent

Synonyms

doomsday weapon doomsday bomb Dead Hand

Questions

What does doomsday device mean?: A hypothetical weapon (often a bomb) programmed to automatically be used in response to certain attacks, usually with very dire consequences (such as the annihilation of the world).
Where does doomsday device come from?: Coined as Doomsday Machine by military strategist Herman Kahn.

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