Synonyms of dooms

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noun

plural of doom

1

as in rulings

a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard

the judge solemnly pronounced his doom before a hushed courtroom

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rulings
• sentences
• decisions
• findings
• verdicts
• judgments
• opinions
• holdings
• injunctions
• decrees
• pronouncements
• declarations
• penalties
• punishments
• determinations
• awards
• resolutions
• arbitraments
• orders
• edicts
• authorities
• dicta
• inquests
• conclusions
• disciplines
• deliverances

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as in destinies

a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand

it was her doom to be haunted by the memory of that terrible day

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destinies
• fates
• fortunes
• chances
• circumstances
• portions
• kismets
• luck
• hazards
• accidents
• consequences
• lots
• effects
• issues
• haps
• outcomes
• casualties
• happenstances
• results
• happenchances
• predestinations
• sequels
• developments
• sequences
• outgrowths
• upshots
• fruits
• aftereffects
• aftermaths
• resultants
• conclusions

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as in fates

the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities

met his doom at the hands of a rampaging rhinoceros

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fates
• deaths
• demises
• passings
• ends
• exits
• dissolutions
• deceases
• sleeps
• expirations
• graves
• curtains
• great divides
• passages
• quietuses
• suicides
• ruins
• fatalities
• expiries
• casualties
• assassinations
• destructions
• endings
• slaughters
• martyrdoms
• annihilations
• executions
• self-murders
• exterminations
• self-destructions
• self-slaughters
• massacres
• killings

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• births
• lives
• existences
• rises
• nativities
• creations
• originations
• geneses

dooms

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verb

present tense third-person singular of doom

1

as in destines

to determine the fate of in advance

the actor felt that he was doomed to be forever remembered for that one terrible performance

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destines
• ordains
• predetermines
• predestines
• predicts
• condemns
• preordains
• fates
• foredooms
• presages
• foreordains
• foretells
• sentences
• prophesies
• prognosticates
• portends
• augurs
• forebodes
• bodes
• forecasts
• foresees
• prejudges
• anticipates
• predestinates
• divines
• foreknows
• preconceives

2

as in sentences

to impose a judicial punishment on

doomed the murderer to life in prison without the possibility of parole

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sentences
• condemns
• punishes
• damns
• penalizes
• adjudges
• corrects
• finds
• opines
• judges
• chastises
• decrees
• disciplines
• rules
• resolves
• determines
• chastens
• castigates
• concludes
• decides
• censures

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pardons
• reprieves

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dooms

Noun

Sam Altman and Elon Musk have dooms above 10 and into the 20s. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025

Verb

Fans continue to ask Carney about Hadestown’s climactic moment, when Orpheus dooms Eurydice forever by turning to look at her on the road back from hell. — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

This dooms the kingdom to the tyrannical rule of the villainous Priscilla (Nikki Glaser), who swoops in and snatches the throne. — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 23 June 2026

Either way, Clark’s decision to deny reality and embrace his monster is what dooms him. — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026

The message here is not that childhood trauma dooms someone to cancer, says Fuller-Thompson. — Rob Williams, EverydayHealth.com, 22 Apr. 2026

Legacy homer dooms Lake Ridge Shayla Gonzalez broke open a 1-1 tie with a 3-run home run in the top of the seventh inning and Mansfield Legacy hung on to beat Mansfield Lake Ridge 4-3 in a District 3-6A showdown on Tuesday night. — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 2026

This leads to the fracture in Catherine and Heathcliff's relationship that dooms them all to ruin. — Megan McCluskey, Time, 13 Feb. 2026

Without that sense of desperate loneliness, what dooms Frankenstein and the Creature to their deaths? — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025

In Swan Lake, the ballet this time, the plot furthers this narrative of seduction and manipulation when the black swan Odile dooms Odette, the white swan, to death by heartbreak. — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 12 Nov. 2025