doomy

doomy

adj \ˈdü-mē\

doom·i·erdoom·i·est

Definition of DOOMY

: suggestive of doom : doomful

— doom·i·ly \ˈdü-mi-lē\ adverb

Examples of DOOMY

1. <the surging doomy music in the background was an unmistakable sign that things would not end well for the movie's hero>

First Known Use of DOOMY

1971

Related to DOOMY

Synonyms: baleful, dire, direful, ominous, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, portentous, sinister, threatening

Antonyms: unthreatening

Related Words: black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched; discouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious; ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unlucky; evil, malign, malignant

Near Antonyms: auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious, prosperous

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Rhymes with DOOMY

bloomy, boomy, fumy, gloomy, plumy, rheumy, roomy, spumy