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doomed

doomed

8.8
People who are certain to die soon and who cannot be saved
  • noun
  • /duːmd/
translation icon : condenados
  • In the novel, the story follows a group of doomed souls trapped in a cycle of despair.

Examples

  • The doomed were gathered at the edge of the cliff, waiting for their final moment.

  • Or are they still doomed due to being bread for fish store fish?

  • But a boom, boom, every living creature is doomed to die.

  • I come from a country that's been doomed by alcohol.

  • But these were not all catastrophically doomed babies, from the sound of this reporting.

  • Candace Caddy, doomed and knew it, accepted the doom without either seeking or fleeing it.

  • I have several titles for the book: "They Never Had a Chance" and "Poems of the Doomed" are two of them, but publishers want names, and names are usually what such poets don't have, even the productive ones, buried while they breathed under the tumulus of their own output.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Many believed the city was filled with doomed residents who could not escape their fate.

Synonyms

goner
vsdoomed
  • Informal
41 8.1

A person who will probably die or be in serious trouble

is about being destined to die soon because of unavoidable circumstances

Antonyms

survivor
551 2.8

A person or animal who lives after a dangerous event

living
339 3.3

People who are alive rather than the dead

Idioms

doomed if you do, doomed if you don't
  • Informal
9.3

Any choice you make leads to bad results

How Doomed

dead duck
  • Informal
4 8.6
doomed
8.8
hopeless
133 2.7
long shot
  • Informal
14 4.6

Surface Forms

doomed singular
doomed plural

Morphology

doomed = doom (semi-transparent) = doom + ed

The transformation from 'doom' to 'doomed' is clear, but the noun's meaning as 'people destined to die' is slightly abstract.

Etymology

Doomed as a noun comes from doom meaning 'judgment', so the phrase 'the doomed' names people who are 'sentenced' by fate to die or suffer. That's why calling a group 'the doomed' means they seem unable to escape a bad end.