Synonyms for doom
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1. doom

   To condemn is to pass judicial sentence or render judgment or decision against. We may censure silently; we condemn ordinarily by open and formal utterance. Condemn is more final than blame or censure; a condemned criminal has had his trial; a condemned building can not stand; a condemned ship can not sail. A person is convicted when his guilt is made clearly manifest to others; in somewhat archaic use, a person is said to be convicted when guilt is brought clearly home to his own conscience (convict in this sense being allied with convince, which see under PERSUADE); in legal usage one is said to be convicted only by the verdict of a jury. In stating the penalty of an offense, the legal word sentence is now more common than condemn; as, he was sentenced to imprisonment; but it is good usage to say, he was condemned to imprisonment. To denounce is to make public or official declaration against, especially in a violent and threatening manner.

   From the pulpits in the northern States Burr was denounced as an assassin.

   Coffin Building the Nation ch. 10, p. 137. [Harper & Bros. '83.]

   To doom is to condemn solemnly and consign to evil or destruction or to predetermine to an evil destiny; an inferior race in presence of a superior is doomed to subjugation or extinction. Compare ARRAIGN; REPROVE.

   Synonyms:
   blame, censure, condemn, convict, denounce, reprobate, reprove, sentence

   Antonyms:
   absolve, acquit, applaud, approve, exonerate, justify, pardon, pardon, praise

   Preposition:
   The bandit was condemned to death for his crime.

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1. doom

   Synonyms:
   judgment, fate, sentence, verdict, condemnation, lot, destiny

   Antonyms:
   liberation, respite, escape, pardon, acquittal, approval

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1. doom, doomsday, day of reckoning, end of the worldverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   eschaton, doomsday, crack of doom, end of the world, day of reckoning

2. destine, fate, doom, designateverb

   decree or designate beforehand

   "She was destined to become a great pianist"

   Synonyms:
   denominate, destine, intend, depute, delegate, fate, show, specify, indicate, sentence, point, designate, condemn, assign

3. sentence, condemn, doomverb

   pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law

   "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

   Synonyms:
   condemn, fate, sentence, excoriate, designate, reprobate, decry, destine, objurgate

4. doomverb

   make certain of the failure or destruction of

   "This decision will doom me to lose my position"

   Synonyms:
   sentence, designate, destine, fate, condemn

Matched Categories

1. • Assure
   • Declare
   • Law
   • Ordain

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1. doomverb

   Synonyms:
   condemn, sentence, pronounce sentence on

2. doomverb

   Synonyms:
   destine, appoint, decree

3. doomnoun

   Synonyms:
   sentence, judgment, condemnation, judicial decree

4. doomnoun

   Synonyms:
   fate, destiny, lot

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1. doomnoun

   Synonyms:
   judicial sentence, judgment, destiny, death

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1. List of paraphrases for "doom":

   destiny, fate, apocalypse, misfortune, curse, ruin, doorn, loss

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1. Zig Ziglar:

   Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

2. Laura Danly:

   Some people look at it as being a portent of doom. That is not uncommon, but it really isn't. It is the alignment of the sun and the moon.

3. Iwitness Truth:

   When the truth is concealed, mistakes are repeated in the future and the ghost of the catastrophic doom of the past resurrect; bringing in it wake the now inevitable doom. Only but the truth was concealed.

4. Florida GOP strategist Rick Wilson:

   I do think he's going to try to reach the American people in a way that tells a story of a very different, optimistic, prospective vision for America, that isn't just the doom and gloom that we tend to get an awful lot of the time on our side.

5. Med Jones:

   I do not agree with the prophets of doom who are predicting the socioeconomic collapse of the United States. Make no mistake, US will recover. The road to recovery is rocky with potential setbacks, and we have to pay for our mistakes like everyone else.