doom
doom is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
- transitive verb. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
- transitive verb. Ruin; death.
- transitive verb. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
- transitive verb. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
- transitive verb. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.
- transitive verb. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
- transitive verb. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
- transitive verb. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
- noun. an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
"everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"
"that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"
- verb. decree or designate beforehand
"She was destined to become a great pianist"
- verb. make certain of the failure or destruction of
"This decision will doom me to lose my position"
- verb. pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
"He was condemned to ten years in prison"
Synonyms
doomsday, designate, destine, fate, condemn, sentence
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in doom:
Common word forms
dooms, doomed, doomer, doomful, dooming
Words from these letters
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