doomed

1. 1
   adjective

   Sure to die, fail, or have something else very bad happen.

   The plan was doomed from the start.

   The sinking boat was doomed, so the crew climbed into the lifeboats.

   Similarcursed, done

   Oppositeblessed

2. 2
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of doom. Use it to say something made a bad end certain.

   The late frost doomed the apple crop.

   One broken engine doomed their trip before it even started.

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3. 3
   adjectivearchaic

   Set by fate to have a certain future, whether good or bad.

   Everywhere she lived, she seemed doomed to have kind neighbors.

   From the day they met at college, they were doomed to be best friends.

   Similarfated, destined, predestined, preordained, foreordained

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