doomed to fail

• futileIncapable of producing results
• hopelessBeyond possibility of success
• cursedUnder a malevolent spell
• sinkingFalling through water
• ill-fatedDestined to fail

destined · inevitable · collapse · downfall · wreck · disaster · trainwreck · folly · hubris · overreach · misguided · flawed · unraveling · crumbling · lost cause · dead end · pipe dream · Titanic

• doomdoomsday, impending doom, doom and gloom, doomed, sense of doom
• giving upgive up, giving up, quit, quitting, surrender