Doomsday Definition

do͝omzdā
noun

Judgment Day.

Webster's New World
Any day of reckoning.
Webster's New World
An anticipated or feared catastrophic event, especially one on a global scale.
American Heritage
Any catastrophic day.
Webster's New World

The day when God is expected to judge the world; end times.

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adjective

Concerned with or predicting future universal destruction.

Wiktionary

Given to or marked by forebodings or predictions of impending calamity.

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Capable of causing widespread or total destruction; doomsday weapon.

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Other Word Forms of Doomsday

Noun

Singular:
doomsday
Plural:
doomsdays

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Origin of Doomsday

  • Middle English domesday from Old English dƍmes dĂŠg dƍmes genitive of dƍm judgment doom dĂŠg day day

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English domes + dai, from Old English dom (“judgment”) + dĂŠg (“day”)

    From Wiktionary

Doomsday Sentence Examples

  • The Pricke of Conscience is a long religious poem, in rhyming couplets, dealing with the beginning of man's life, the instability of the world, why death is to be dreaded, of doomsday, of the pains of hell, and the joys of heaven, the two latter subjects being treated with uncompromising realism.

  • To couple beliefs of Nostradamus 2012 doomsday predictions with the media creates a powerful event.

  • Doomsday MachineAforementioned in this article are "The City on the Edge of Forever" and "The Trouble With Tribbles".

  • Side by side with these old stories come fragments of a different stratum of thought, Christian ideas, the belief in a supreme God, the notion of Doomsday.

  • Will you be transformed into a genetic changeling, or fall into the clutches of a doomsday cult?

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Words Starting With

DDODOO

Words Ending With

YAYDAY

Unscrambles

doomsday

Words Starting With D and Ending With Y

Starts With D & Ends With YStarts With DO & Ends With YStarts With D & Ends With AY

Word Length

8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With D8 Letter Words Ending With Y