doomsday
doomsday
Definition
dooms·day (do̵̅o̅mz′dā′)
noun
- Judgment Day
- any day of reckoning
- any catastrophic day
Etymology: ME domesdai < OE domes dæg < domes, gen. of dom, doom + day
doomsday
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- other: Because it causes about other doomsday on the gas triad area driving.
Modifies a noun
- scenario: Is there a doomsday scenario where the whole thing could crash?
- cult: Where he was the nominal leader of a doomsday cult who believed aliens would take over the world at the millenium.
- prediction: Result of the weekend: no rain to speak of, despite all the doomsday predictions.
- device: More modern folklore suggest that a secret base exists under the mountain holding some kind of doomsday device.
- machine: Emotions, in Pinker's parlance, are doomsday machines.
doomsday Quotes
Even an attorney of modest talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game ofchance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
Browse dictionary entries near doomsday
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