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dooming

doom
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [doom]
    • /dum/
    • /duːm/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [doom]
    • /dum/

Definitions of dooming word

  • noun dooming fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom. 1
  • noun dooming ruin; death: to fall to one's doom. 1
  • noun dooming a judgment, decision, or sentence, especially an unfavorable one: The judge pronounced the defendant's doom. 1
  • noun dooming the Last Judgment, at the end of the world. 1
  • noun dooming Obsolete. a statute, enactment, or legal judgment. 1
  • verb with object dooming to destine, especially to an adverse fate. 1

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Origin of dooming

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English dome, dōm, Old English dōm judgment, law; cognate with Old Norse dōmr, Gothic dōms; compare Sanskrit dhā́man, Greek thémis law; see do1, deem

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Parts of speech for Dooming

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

dooming popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 89% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

dooming usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for dooming

verb dooming

  • criticize — If you criticize someone or something, you express your disapproval of them by saying what you think is wrong with them.
  • sentence — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
  • punish — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
  • denounce — If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
  • censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.

Antonyms for dooming

verb dooming

  • compliment — A compliment is a polite remark that you say to someone to show that you like their appearance, appreciate their qualities, or approve of what they have done.
  • laud — to praise; extol.
  • praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
  • build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
  • sanction — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.

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