doomy
/ˈduːmi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.71 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic
Example Sentences
- "Their big hit at the time was "Death Valley '69," a typical droney, doomy replay of the Manson murders that was about as illuminating as your average TV mini series."
- "Those children playing didn't look like doomy little criminals, once you knew their names."
- "To get doomier still, there’s also the pertinent question of whether, given current ecological speculation, the human race will even survive beyond the next century or so – an uncertainty which makes applying one’s imagination to a 22nd or 23rd Century rather academic."
- "What makes Don’t Look Up such a movie of the moment also makes it less of a functional movie at all, and more of a cranky, doomy, occasionally funny headspace."
- "The opposite of an escapist blockbuster, the eighth and apparently final outing for Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt is the doomiest and gloomiest yet in the action-adventure franchise."
Etymology
Etymology tree English doom Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English doomy From doom + -y.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈduːmi/