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Added 30 September 2026

doom

/duːm/ noun

In Latin: sacro Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about doom at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Destiny, especially terrible.
An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.

verb

To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.
a criminal doomed to death
To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.

phrase

Initialism of didn't organize, only moved; used in compounds designating a miscellaneous collection of items which one has failed to properly organize.
I tried to organize my stuff but just ended up making a big doom pile.

Origin

From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos. Cognates Compare Dutch doem (“condemnation, doom; judgement”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish dom (“judgement”), Faroese and Icelandic dómur (“judgement”), Gothic 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃 (dōms, “insight, judgement”); also Ancient Greek θωμός (thōmós, “heap”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian ду́ма (dúma, “thought”), Polish duma (“pride”). Doublet of duma. See also deem.

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