doomed
Americanadjective
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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.
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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.
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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
Other Word Forms
- self-doomed adjective
Etymology
Origin of doomed
Example Sentences
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Relatives said they now believe the ragtag group’s mission was doomed from the start.
She had, to be fair, done a few interviews before the result was confirmed, but after it looked clear Labour was doomed.
From BBC
By taking on Brontë’s book, Fennell was doomed to stare down millions of overly pedantic literature sticklers, people who prefer their adaptations pure and untainted.
From Salon
But if an otter were doomed to distant petdom, there could be few better homes than the remote bay where Mijbil was free to come and go.
"That feeling of being doomed… Out of everything I've done in the army and in life overall, that was the worst. Not having any idea what the future could bring or what would come next."
From BBC
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