Word Meanings - DOOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. J. R. Green. Now against himself he sounds this doom. Shak. 2. That to which one is doomed

Additional info about word: DOOM

1. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. J. R. Green. Now against himself he sounds this doom. Shak. 2. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty. Ere Hector meets his doom. Pope. And homely household task shall be her doom. Dryden. 3. Ruin; death. This is the day of doom for Bassianus. Shak. 4. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision. And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom. Fairfax. Syn. -- Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot; ruin; destruction.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DOOM)

• Condemn
• Blame
• convict
• reprove
• cast
• censure
• denounce
• doom
• sentence
• Destine
• Purpose
• intend
• design
• ordain
• devote
• Destination
• intention
• consignment
• object
• end
• fate
• arrival
• application
• use
• scope
• appointment
• point
• location
• goal
• aim
• Destiny
• Fate
• decree
• lot
• fortune
• predestination
• necessity
• Necessity
• destiny

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DOOM)

• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to DOOM)

• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• DENOUNCE
  denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim . Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• INTENDENT
  See N
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• ORDAINMENT
  Ordination. Burke.
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• INTENDIMENT
  Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
• CONVICTION
  A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone. 3. The act of convincing of
• DESTINATION
  1. The act of destining or appointing. 2. Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design. 3. The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at. Syn.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• METEOROSCOPE
  An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
• OTOSCOPEIC
  Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.
• NONARRIVAL
  Failure to arrive.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• ENDOSCOPE
  An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
• MICROSPECTROSCOPE
  A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.