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

Yet, the lack of quality writing and fresh ideas (or even inspired ways to connect to the source material) dooms the project. —Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025

To find the killer, Sherlock Holmes and Watson will have to brave desolate moors before a family curse dooms the newest heirs. —Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025

This potentially dooms them to 48 hours in the nearest town. —Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025

Despite concerns that failure to be in the blue reading group in first grade dooms a child’s adult options to a career in coal mining (or worse, a lesser UC), both have been completely self-supporting (and not in the coal-mining industry) since graduating from college. —Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025