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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DOOMED, pp. Adjudged; sentenced; condemned; destined; fated.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: marked for certain death; "the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed"
2: in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell; "poor damned souls" [syn: cursed, damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved]
3: marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott [syn: doomed, ill-fated, ill- omened, ill-starred, unlucky]
4: (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate; "doomed to unhappiness"; "fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination" [syn: doomed, fated] n
1: people who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice" [syn: doomed, lost]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Doom Doom, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dooming.] 1. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.] --Milton. 2. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death. Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. --Dryden. 3. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. Have I tongue to doom my brother's death? --Shak. 4. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England] --J. Pickering. 5. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate. A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with difficulties. --Macaulay.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If something is doomed to happen, or if you are doomed to a particular state, something unpleasant is certain to happen, and you can do nothing to prevent it. Their plans seemed doomed to failure... ADJ: v-link ADJ, ADJ to n, ADJ to-inf 2. Someone or something that is doomed is certain to fail or be destroyed. I used to pour time and energy into projects that were doomed from the start. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

accursed, appointed, bewitched, condemned, cursed, damned, destined, devoted, fatal, fated, fateful, foredoomed, foreordained, futile, ill-fated, in store, in the cards, inevitable, lost, luckless, marked, ordained, predestined, star-crossed, vain, written