doom
Sealed terrible fate
Doom is fate or destiny, especially when terrible or unavoidable.
The word carries weight—not just misfortune but inescapable ruin: a sense of impending doom, the doom of civilization.
To doom someone is to condemn them to a grim fate: The expedition was doomed from the start.
Doomsday is the day of final judgment or catastrophic destruction.
In gaming, Doom became iconic as a pioneering first-person shooter, lending the word associations with demonic combat and heavy metal aesthetics.
Violent, large-scale disaster
- end-timesProphesied concluding era
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- destructionAct of completely ruining
collapse · ruination · holocaust · decimation · wasteland · fallout · post-apocalyptic · apocalypse
Predetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- providenceDivine protective care
- foreordainedDecided in advance unavoidably
inevitability · prophecy · oracle · augury · omen · harbinger · portent · divination
Severe disapproval expressed formally
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- verdictOfficial court decision
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- reckoningSettlement of accounts
tribunal · punishment · wrath · hellfire · purgatory · perdition · retribution · brimstone
Total absence of hope
- hopelessnessState without hope
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- pessimismExpecting unfavorable outcomes
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
foreboding · dread · darkness · grimness · desolation · anguish · woe · lamentation
cataclysm
Violent, large-scale disaster
- end-timesProphesied concluding era
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
destruction · collapse · ruination · holocaust · decimation · wasteland · fallout · post-apocalyptic · apocalypse · tribulation
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- providenceDivine protective care
foreordained · inevitability · prophecy · oracle · augury · omen · harbinger · portent · divination · fated
condemnation
Severe disapproval expressed formally
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- verdictOfficial court decision
- damnationEternal punishment decree
reckoning · tribunal · punishment · wrath · hellfire · purgatory · perdition · retribution · brimstone · damned
despair
Total absence of hope
- hopelessnessState without hope
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- pessimismExpecting unfavorable outcomes
melancholy · foreboding · dread · darkness · grimness · desolation · anguish · woe · lamentation · dirge
foreboding
Fearful anticipation of harm
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
portentous · dire · grim · baleful · dark · eerie · chilling · haunting · dreadful · looming
BFG
Initials for benevolent colossus
chainsaw · shotgun · imp · modding · speedrun · multiplayer · fragging · deathmatch
- deathdead, deceased, corpse, mortality, demise
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse
- dangersdanger, peril, hazard, risk, menace
- despairdespair, hopelessness, desolation, despondency, dejection
- fatedestiny, fate, kismet, Moira, fated
doomsalvation
Deliverance from harm
deliverance · blessing · fortune · providence · good fortune
doompardon
Official release from punishment
acquittal · absolution · reprieve · exoneration · clemency
- doom and gloomPersistent negative outlook
- gloom and doomPervasive negative expectation
- doomed romance
- impending doomUnavoidable calamity approaching
- doomsday cultGroup expecting imminent apocalypse
- doom scrollingCompulsive consumption of distressing content
doomed, doomsday, dooming, doomsayer, dooms, doomy, doomster, doomsaying, foredoomed