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Doomed

adjective
1.
Marked for certain death.
2.
In danger of the eternal punishment of Hell.  Synonyms: cursed, damned, unredeemed, unsaved.
3.
Marked by or promising bad fortune.  Synonyms: ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky.  "An ill-fated business venture" , "An ill-starred romance" , "The unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"
4.
(usually followed by 'to') determined by tragic fate.  Synonym: fated.  "Fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination"
noun
1.
People who are destined to die soon.  Synonym: lost.


Doom

verb
(past & past part. doomed; pres. part. dooming)
1.
Decree or designate beforehand.  Synonyms: designate, destine, fate.
2.
Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law.  Synonyms: condemn, sentence.
3.
Make certain of the failure or destruction of.



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"Doomed" Quotes from Famous Books



... the beds, in a vain endeavor to unearth at least one of the stolen gems. He had also been down in the wine-cellar, on the theory that some of the servants might have gone down there to get drunk, and while in that condition might have dropped the gems, but there also he was doomed to disappointment. ...
— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry
... back did not carry with it the conviction of victory. Lochiel turned to his Camerons with a smile. "Courage!" he said, "the day is our own. I am the oldest commander in this army; and I tell you that feeble noise is the cry of men who are doomed to fall by our hands this night." Then the old warrior flung off his shoes with the rest of them, and took his place at the head of his men. Dundee rode to the front of his cavalry. The pipes sounded, and the clans came down ...
— Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris
... the log of man's fugitive castaway soul upon a doomed and derelict planet. The minds of all men plod the same rough roads of sense; and in spite of much knavery, all win at times "an ampler ether, a diviner air." The great poets, our masters, speak out of that clean freshness of perception. We ...
— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley
... the significance of this prayer and of the prophetic wisdom of the petitioner, who, standing on the ruins of his nation's independence, thought only of rescuing the Law. Rome, the empire of the "iron legs," was doomed to be crushed, nation after nation to be swallowed in the vortex of time, but Israel lives by the Law, the very law snatched from the smouldering ruins of Jerusalem, the beloved alike of crazy zealots and despairing peace advocates, and carried to the ...
— Jewish Literature and Other Essays • Gustav Karpeles
... incidental passage in the Reflections. There he tells us how often he had reflected, and never reflected without feeling, upon the innumerable servile and degrading occupations to which by the social economy so many wretches are inevitably doomed. He had pondered whether there could be any means of rescuing these unhappy people from their miserable industry without disturbing the natural course of things, and impeding the great wheel of circulation which is turned by their labour. This is the vein of that striking passage in his ...
— Burke • John Morley


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