DOOMSDAY Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

doomsday

noun

Definition of doomsday

as in disaster

the day the world ends or is destroyed a warning that doomsday is near doomsday predictions

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Recent Examples of doomsday The elevator moment is only one of the silent visual callbacks to Season 1 as a way to bid farewell to our favorite doomsday survival bunker underneath Colorado City (jury’s out on the one revealed underneath the Denver Airport). — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026 But there is no denying that the Padres’ 5-1 loss to the Diamondbacks at the end of deadline day provided a glimpse at their doomsday scenario. — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026 This is not necessarily a doomsday scenario, said John Thickstun in The Guardian. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 2 Aug. 2026 And sure, six to eight weeks of emergency supplies might sound a little alarmist — maybe borderline doomsday prep-y. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for doomsday

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Noun

The baby’s father, Andres Garcia, survived the boat disaster, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told CNN.

— Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
Rescuers continued recovering bodies from the artisanal mining site in Zamboye, near the border with Cameroon, but local workers said the response lacked the equipment and expertise needed for a disaster of such scale.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of disaster

Noun

That tension between catastrophe for humanity and recovery for nature runs all the way to the ending.

— Solitaire Townsend, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
The first step in averting this spiral toward catastrophe is for both Beijing and Washington to bear in mind that these economic tools were not designed as weapons.

— GLORIA XIONG, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of catastrophe

Noun

At first, its plea to remain somewhere in an old lover’s life can feel like the whole tragedy.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026
Boeing has admitted fault in these tragedies, attributing the cause of the crashes to a flawed Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).

— Erin Jensen, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of tragedy

Noun

The crime thriller has Gray having helmed a semi-fictionalized return to his family life in mid-1980s Queens and is also a companion piece to his 2022 film Armageddon Time.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026
Good Omens is the story of an angel, Aziraphale (Sheen), and a demon, Crowley (Tennant), who gradually become friends over the millennia and team up to avert Armageddon.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026

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