doomed

[ doomd ]

adjective

1. destined, or seemingly destined, especially to an adverse fate:

   Math wizards were able to pinpoint the final resting place of the doomed jet deep beneath the ocean.

2. judged guilty and sentenced, especially to death; condemned:

   Several times today and tonight the doomed man has wept like a child in his prison cell.

3. ordained or fixed, as a sentence or fate:

   In this age of finding everything online, it won’t be long before seed catalogs suffer the same doomed fate as most gardening magazines.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of doom ( def ).

Other Words From

• self-doomed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of doomed¹

doom + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Weiss met Brier, the Harry to her Sally, in a doomed “22-year-old writers group” that lasted about two weeks and then disbanded after two members hooked up, making things weird.

From Los Angeles Times

Once I saw she was doing as many as 10 points worse than Biden did in 2020 in the counties he easily won I knew she was doomed.

From Salon

The haka in Parliament is one part of a wider outcry against the likely doomed bill.

From Salon

Yet, by the time the McWaids were rushing away — with 20- to 25-foot flames in the rearview mirror, right up against the area that they had cleared — McWaid was already certain his home was doomed.

From Los Angeles Times

He’s not only the show’s tragically doomed protagonist but also its storyteller, and he anchors the production with a handsome ordinariness.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• ill-fated
• wrecked