doom1 verbdoom2 noun
doomdoom1 /duːm/ ●○○ verb [transitive] 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The threat of a costly legal battle doomed the proposal.
- All have been doomed to failure.
- But this attempt to carry on as though nothing had happened was doomed from the start.
- Even those you thought were doomed.
- Half of us are ruthless and the other half are doomed.
- None of this means that Gore is doomed.
- They had felt she was doomed from the beginning.
- Yet in the longer term a regime resting upon the narrowing social base of the landowning nobility was doomed.
Longman Language Activatorcertain to fail or end in a bad way
if someone or something is doomed , it is certain that they will die, fail, or end in a very bad way: · The film is about a set of aliens living on a doomed planet.doomed to: · Without his job, his family would be doomed to a life of deprivation.doomed to do something: · Marx taught that capitalist economies are eventually doomed to collapse.doomed to failure/disappointment/extinction etc: · In the novel, Jude's marriage is doomed to failure from the start.
if something, especially something bad, is fated to happen, it seems that it is certain to happen because of some mysterious force that you cannot control: · It seems that she was fated to be alone in life.· Achilles was kept back by his mother. She knew that if he went to Troy he was fated to die there.
certain to fail something that is pointless is unlikely to have a very useful or successful result, so it would be better not to do it or try it: · The argument was completely pointless.· Most people think the project is a pointless waste of money.pointless exercise: · Speculating like that was always a pointless exercise, but he did it nevertheless.it is pointless to do something: · It's pointless to take notes and then never look at them again.it is pointless doing something: · She decided it was pointless trying to work while her mind was on other things.
especially spoken something that is a waste of time is unlikely to achieve any useful result, so you would be wasting your time if you tried to do it: · Many people think that complaining about bad service is a waste of time.a complete/total waste of time: · These meetings are a complete waste of time. Nothing ever gets decided.it is a waste of time doing something: · It's a waste of time going to the doctor - he'll just tell you to get plenty of rest.
spoken say this when you think that it is useless to do something because you will not achieve anything useful by doing it: · "Why don't you try to explain things to him?" "There's no point, he never listens."· I was going to buy a new car, but what's the point when my old one's perfectly all right?there's no point (in) doing something: · There's no point getting a new carpet until the decorating's done.what's the point in/of doing something?: · What's the point of giving a signal when there are no other cars around to see it?
not having any chance at all of succeeding: · Attempts to clean up the environment are doomed unless businesses take a leading role.· Within a few months she realized that her marriage was doomed.doomed to failure: · If you refuse to provide any information to the user, then your computer program is doomed to failure.doomed from the start: · Their business venture was doomed from the start, as they did not have the necessary capital.
something that you try to make successful, although it seems very clear to other people that it cannot succeed: · At first it seemed the attempt to save the species was a lost cause.· The miners' strike of 1984 turned out to be a lost cause.
British an idea or plan that will definitely not be successful: · Everybody would prefer a lower rate of tax, but that that is a non-starter economically.· The project would have been a non-starter without the help of Judith Glyn.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Many species are doomed to extinction. The plan was doomed from the start.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES These birds are considered to be harbingers of doom. She had a sense of impending disaster.
to make someone or something certain to fail, die, be destroyed etcbe doomed to failure/defeat/extinction etc Many species are doomed to extinction. The plan was doomed from the start. (=certain to fail, and causing something very bad to happen)· His attempt to reach the Pole was doomed from the beginning.
(=be sure to be disappointed)· If you expect too much, you will be doomed to disappointment.
(=be certain to fail)· The rebellion was doomed to failure from the start.
(=when there seems no hope)· The picture is not all doom and gloom - some tourist areas are still drawing in the crowds.
These birds are considered to be harbingers of doom. She had a sense of impending disaster. (=someone who says that bad things will happen)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Over the period since 1945 as a whole, other beasts proved mammoths - of elephantine size but doomed to extinction.· Under emancipation, the Negro was thought to be doomed to extinction.
· In aquarium conditions such attempts are usually doomed to failure due to bacteria attacking the severed portions before the wounds heal.· Any attempt to legislate goodwill in the market-place is doomed to failure.· Even so, such alliances are, in the long run, doomed to failure.· It was clear that any straight forward attempt to build the maximum floor area on the site would be doomed to failure.· Another airborne bid for peace that Churchill disapproved of, likewise doomed to failure.· It was now obvious that repeated military efforts by a single state were doomed to failure.· And yet it looks doomed to failure, thwarted by a United States-led opposition.· The union quest to preserve the rights and prerogatives of unskilled labor are doomed to failure.
· Any individual initiative against them is doomed from the start.· But this attempt to carry on as though nothing had happened was doomed from the start.· In truth, it was doomed from the very start.· I think that record was doomed from the start.· The council tax is doomed from the start.· Things weren't good - perhaps the film was doomed from the start.
VERB· In this climate Minitel seems doomed.· Yet, any critical attempt to reduce to discursive terms the emotional and poetic appeal of the film seems doomed to failure.· When Lord Leverhulme abandoned Lewis, the crofting villages seemed doomed to a steady decline and eventual extinction.· Now the Local, depleted, seemed to be doomed, because it needed the votes of the crossovers and scabs.· Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities.· Sable Island seems doomed to wash away, and this pale, pretty dune sparrow will go with it.· The beeches, in the absence of recruits to replace plants dying of old age, seem doomed.· It might seem that adolescents are doomed for ever to be ideological social critics.
Many species are doomed to extinction. The plan was doomed from the start.be doomed to do something We are all doomed to die in the end.GRAMMAR Doom is usually passive.—doomed adjective: passengers on the doomed flightdoom1 verbdoom2 noun
doomdoom2 ●○○ noun [uncountable] WORD ORIGINdoom2
Origin:
Old English domEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- But, given the doom and gloom already surrounding the earliest silent movies, maybe he wasn't joking at all.
- ElijahA strange man who prophesies doom for the Pequod.
- His religion is as much as anything the regression to a past of obedience, disobedience, sin and doom.
- I am not going to intrude like the voice of doom, commenting on her choices, her motives, her failings.
- In giving her the chance to shine in front of an appreciative Tory audience Heath probably sealed his own doom.
- No one wants to be the bearer of bad tidings, or the herald of impending doom.
- There was silence for a moment or two and then, like the voice of doom, Frau Nordern spoke again.
- When, how-ever, Pentheus only heaped insults and threats upon him, Dionysus left him to his doom.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives These birds are considered to be harbingers of doom. She had a sense of impending disaster.
something very bad that is going to happen, or the fact that it is going to happen: (=likely to happen soon)· With a terrible sense of impending doom, he opened the door and went in.
(=sure to happen)· Some environmentalists have concluded that the planet faces certain doom.
verbs (=mean that something will not continue to exist)· Many people predicted that Internet growth would spell doom for the traditional media.
(=die in an unpleasant way)· At the end of the movie, the bad guys met their doom.
phrases· Everyone in the business has a feeling of doom at the moment.
(=bad things that may happen in the future)· The newspapers are always full of doom and gloom.
(=someone who says that something bad is going to happen)· The prophets of doom were confounded when the team won the championship.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=certain to fail, and causing something very bad to happen)· His attempt to reach the Pole was doomed from the beginning.
(=be sure to be disappointed)· If you expect too much, you will be doomed to disappointment.
(=be certain to fail)· The rebellion was doomed to failure from the start.
(=when there seems no hope)· The picture is not all doom and gloom - some tourist areas are still drawing in the crowds.
These birds are considered to be harbingers of doom. She had a sense of impending disaster. (=someone who says that bad things will happen)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· And my pounding heart served to give me a feeling of impending doom.· Thomas looked over the marshlands which showed no sign of impending doom.· He has already received warnings of his own impending doom so is lost in his own thoughts, fears and anxieties.
VERB· I lit a Gauloise as the bell went and prepared to meet my doom.
· One false move in the conduct of the attack will spell certain doom for White.
A sense of impending doom (=coming very soon) gripped her.sense/feeling of doomspell doom for something (=mean that something will be unable to continue or survive) The recession spelled doom for many small businesses. Thousands of soldiers met their doom (=died) on this very field.doom and gloom/gloom and doom (=when there seems to be no hope for the future) Despite these poor figures, it’s not all doom and gloom.COLLOCATIONSadjectivesimpending doom (=likely to happen soon)· With a terrible sense of impending doom, he opened the door and went in.certain/inevitable doom (=sure to happen)· Some environmentalists have concluded that the planet faces certain doom.verbsspell doom (=mean that something will not continue to exist)· Many people predicted that Internet growth would spell doom for the traditional media.meet your doom (=die in an unpleasant way)· At the end of the movie, the bad guys met their doom.phrasesa sense/feeling of doom· Everyone in the business has a feeling of doom at the moment.doom and gloom/gloom and doom (=bad things that may happen in the future)· The newspapers are always full of doom and gloom.a prophet of doom (=someone who says that something bad is going to happen)· The prophets of doom were confounded when the team won the championship.