Word Definition

Doom

  1. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
  2. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
  3. Ruin; death.
  4. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
  5. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.
  6. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
  7. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
  8. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  9. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.