# doomed

Pronunciation: say "DOOMD" /duːmd/

## Adjective

1. Certain to suffer death, failure, or some similarly bad outcome.
   - Simple: Sure to die, fail, or have something else very bad happen.
   - _Without new funding, the project is doomed to failure._
   - _The novel follows a doomed romance between two soldiers on opposite sides of the war._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of doom. — simple past and past participle of doom
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of doom. Use it to say something made a bad end certain.
   - _A single tactical error doomed the campaign in its first week._
   - _The old king had doomed his own brother to exile._

## Adjective

3. Destined by fate to some particular outcome, whether good or bad. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: Set by fate to have a certain future, whether good or bad.
   - _The fortune teller insisted that the child was doomed to great wealth and a long life._
   - _Some people, the old priest said, are doomed to joy and others to sorrow._

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