doomsday

dooms·day

D0340700 (do͞omz′dā′)n.1. Judgment Day.2. An anticipated or feared catastrophic event, especially one on a global scale.Idiom: til/until doomsday For all time; forever.

[Middle English domesday, from Old English dōmes dæg : dōmes, genitive of dōm, judgment; see doom + dæg, day; see day.]

doomsday

(ˈduːmzˌdeɪ) or

domesday

n1. (Theology) (sometimes capital) the day on which the Last Judgment will occur2. any day of reckoning3. (modifier) characterized by predictions of disaster: doomsday scenario. [Old English dōmes dæg Judgment Day; related to Old Norse domsdagr]

dooms•day

(ˈdumzˌdeɪ)

n. the day of the Last Judgment. [before 1000; Middle English domes dai, Old English dōmesdæg Judgment Day. See doom, day]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	doomsday - (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly livescrack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, end of the world, eschaton, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last JudgmentNew Testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bibleday - some point or period in time; "it should arrive any day now"; "after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the days"; "these days it is not unusual"
	2.	doomsday - 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"doom, end of the world, day of reckoningdestiny, fate - an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

doomsday

nounQuotations
"This is the way the world ends"
"Not with a bang but a whimper" [T.S. Eliot The Hollow Men]

Translations

doomsday

till doomsday

For a very long, indefinite amount of time; forever. Although we don't have to pay for medical care in this country, you'll sometimes be waiting till doomsday to receive elective treatment. My wife was talking on the phone with her sister till doomsday last night!See also: doomsday, till

until doomsday

For a very long, indefinite amount of time; forever. Although we don't have to pay for medical care in this country, you'll sometimes be waiting until doomsday to receive elective treatment. My wife was talking on the phone with her sister until doomsday last night!See also: doomsday, until

till doomsday

for ever. Doomsday means literally ‘judgement day’, the Last Judgement of Christian tradition.See also: doomsday, till

till ˈdoomsday

(informal) a very long time; for ever: This job’s going to take me till doomsday. Doomsday is the last day of the world when Christians believe that everyone will be judged by God.See also: doomsday, till

doomsday

, domesday the day on which the Last Judgment will occur

Doomsday

(pop culture)Abrawny fist, spiny protrusions shredding the fabric of its glove, hammered through a steel wall in a late 1992 prelude to a Superman storyline. The fist belonged to Doomsday, a 7-foot monstrosity of unknown origin, erupting from a prison pod with wanton destruction on his mind. In DC Comics' landmark “Death of Superman” serial, Doomsday barrels through North America, plowing over the Justice League and attracting the attention of the mighty Man of Steel. Superman and Doomsday's battle evolves over several issues, climaxing in a blood brawl in the highly publicized Superman vol. 2 #75 (1993), in which Superman sacrifices his life to stop this behemoth (although the hero was, after much story exploitation, later resurrected). Doomsday was created by committee. Writers, artists, and editors periodically gathered at “Supersummits” to chart the overlapping events of the franchise of four monthly Superman series, and Doomsday was the group's 1992 attempt to introduce “a foe that Superman could barely defeat,” remarked Superman #75 artist/writer Dan Jurgens. The publicity machine behind the “Death of Superman” event triggered international headlines and the brief fashion trend of black “S” armbands. Superman #75's release packed millions of new consumers into comics shops, many of whom speculatively purchased multiple copies as future collector's items. The Man of Steel's epic struggle with Doomsday was also chronicled in prose by comics scribe Roger Stern in the best-selling novel The Death and Life of Superman (1993). Eager to revisit this “box-office” bonanza, DC and Jurgens produced the three-issue miniseries Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey (1994), revealing Doomsday's origin: eons ago he was genetically engineered on Superman's homeworld of Krypton to be a killing machine capable of regeneration if ever defeated. With the help of a Kryptonian battlesuit, Superman bested Doomsday, but this seemingly unstoppable force continues to occasionally resurface—including television appearances on the Cartoon Network's Justice League (2001–2004) and Justice League Unlimited (2004–present), with Michael Jai White of Spawn fame lending the monster voice.

doomsday

Related to doomsday: Doomsday Clock

noun

Synonyms for doomsday

noun (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives

Synonyms

crack of doom
Day of Judgement
Day of Judgment
day of reckoning
end of the world
eschaton
Judgement Day
Judgment Day
Last Day
Last Judgement
Last Judgment

Related Words

New Testament
day

noun an unpleasant or disastrous destiny

Synonyms

doom
end of the world
day of reckoning

Related Words

destiny
fate