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    Meaning of “doomed” in the English Dictionary

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    doomedadjective

    uk ​ /duːmd/ us ​ /duːmd/

    › certain to fail, die, or be destroyed:

    This is a doomed city.

    Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

    Not hopeful

    • be in a funk idiom
    • be on a hiding to nothing idiom
    • chance
    • defeatist
    • dejected
    • dim
    • glum
    • grim
    • hiding
    • hope
    • hopeless
    • lose
    • negative
    • not give much for sb's chances idiom
    • not have a hope in hell idiom
    • pessimism
    • pessimistic
    • prophet
    • prophet of doom idiom
    • win

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    (Definition of “doomed” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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    Translations of “doomed”
     
    • in Portuguese
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    • condenado…

    • 注定失败(或灭亡、毁灭)的…

    • alnına yazılı olan, kötü talihli, mahvolmaya/ölmeye/başarısızlığa mahkum…

    • обреченный…

    • 註定失敗(或滅亡、毀滅)的…

    • skazany na klęskę…

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