⚖️ Deserving judgment 🌩️ Threatening disaster

doomful

9.9

Likely to get severe punishment or strong blame

adjective
/ˈduːmfəl/

Archaic

: maledicto

In the old legend, a doomful prophecy warned of disaster for the kingdom.

Examples

The traitor faced a doomful fate at the hands of the angry villagers.
His doomful actions led to his exile from the community.
The doomful prophecy cast a shadow over the village.
She spoke in a doomful tone that made everyone uneasy.
The ancient prophecy spoke of a doomful fate awaiting those who defied the gods.
In her doomful reflection, she considered the consequences of her reckless choices.
The villagers feared the doomful warnings of the oracle that foretold ruin and despair.

Synonyms

damnable

vsdoomful

Formal

10 8.5

Something that people strongly blame or hate for being very bad

is focused on formal severe judgment and possible punishment in archaic contexts

condemnable

vsdoomful

1 7.5

Deserving strong criticism for being wrong

is more about receiving harsh judgment or punishment in literary use

Antonyms

innocent

∞ 2.2

Not guilty of a crime or wrongdoing

blameless

18 3.6

Not guilty of any wrong

How Guilty

doomful

Archaic

9.9

condemnable

1 7.5

guilty

∞ 2.3

culpable

26 7.5

blameworthy

1 6.5

Surface Forms

doomful positive

Morphology

doomful = doom (transparent) = doom + ful

The meaning is directly derived from 'doom' with the suffix '-ful' indicating full of or characterized by doom.

Etymology

The word doomful comes from the old word doom, which means 'judgment' or 'fate', and the ending -ful, which means 'full of', so a doomful person is seen as 'full of doom' and likely to face serious judgment or punishment.