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See Also:

• past participle of doom.
• past tense form of doom.

doomed

American  

[doomd] / dumd /

adjective

1. destined, or seemingly destined, especially to an adverse fate.

   Math wizards were able to pinpoint the final resting place of the doomed jet deep beneath the ocean.

2. judged guilty and sentenced, especially to death; condemned.

   Several times today and tonight the doomed man has wept like a child in his prison cell.

3. ordained or fixed, as a sentence or fate.

   In this age of finding everything online, it won’t be long before seed catalogs suffer the same doomed fate as most gardening magazines.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of doom.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-doomed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of doomed

doom + -ed ² ( def. )

Explanation

The doomed are people marked by very bad luck, particularly death. When you learn about a tragedy, like a tsunami that kills many people, it makes you feel terrible for the doomed. Doomed is a plural noun for referring to a group of unfortunate people, and it's also an adjective describing someone who's destined to die. A runaway dog that kills the animal control officer's pet chickens is doomed, and many characters in Shakespeare's tragic plays are doomed. You can also follow doomed with "to" to mean "destined" or "fated." Your uncle might be doomed to continue working as a school bus driver for the rest of his career.

Example Sentences

“If we don’t understand what happened, we are doomed to repeat it.”

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2026

It is just as easy to find critics who think AI is just the latest tech fad that is doomed to fizzle before it achieves anything.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Rollins found another purpose to his art after the September 11, 2001 attacks, when he was living just six blocks from the doomed World Trade Center.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Another joyless season in the Premier League for Burnley, doomed to relegation under the now sacked Scott Parker, long before the drop was officially confirmed.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

I feel like I died a hundred yards downhill, and now my spirit is trapped here, doomed to haunt this place, reliving the climb, and the thirst, and the flames for all eternity.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Related Words

• ill-fated
• wrecked