dooms
Ensures certain failure
Dooms is the verb form of doom, meaning to condemn someone or something to a terrible fate or certain failure.
When circumstances doom a project, they make its failure inevitable: The lack of funding dooms the initiative from the start.
People can also be doomed by their own choices or by forces beyond their control: His stubbornness dooms him to repeat the same mistakes.
The word carries a sense of finality and inescapability.
Violent, large-scale disaster
- end-timesProphesied concluding era
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
obliteration · devastation · destruction · ruination · desolation · rapture · tribulation · holocaust
Expresses severe disapproval
- sentencesPunishments or complete thoughts
- convictsImprisoned felons
- judgesLegal proceeding overseers
- decreesOfficial orders with force
pronounces · declares · rules · adjudicates · damns · consigns · banishes · curses
Predetermined course of events
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- inevitabilityQuality of being unavoidable
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
fortune · lot · karma · ordained · decreed · sealed · fated · cursed
cataclysm
Violent, large-scale disaster
- end-timesProphesied concluding era
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
annihilation · obliteration · devastation · destruction · ruination · desolation · rapture · tribulation · holocaust · decimation
condemns
Expresses severe disapproval
decrees · pronounces · declares · rules · adjudicates · damns · consigns · banishes · curses · punishes
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- inevitabilityQuality of being unavoidable
- kismetPreordained future outcome
providence · fortune · lot · karma · ordained · decreed · sealed · fated · cursed · damned
dread
Intense anticipatory fear
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- portentSign of future calamity
- omenProphetic indicator
warning · harbinger · threat · menace · shadow · specter · gloom · pessimism · apprehension · trepidation
- Anglo-Saxon EnglandAnglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon, witenagemot, Northumbria, thane
- Germanic lawAnglo-Saxon law, law codes, blood feud, ordeal, trial by combat
- medieval lawMagna Carta, medieval justice, assize, writ, law codes
- destroyersdestroyers, guided missile, torpedo tubes, hull, stern
- medieval documentscharter, royal charter, town charter, indenture, patent
- 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
doom, doomed, doomsday, dooming, doomy, doomster, doom-monger