doomed

doomed
I
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. ruined, cursed, sentenced, lost, condemned, damned, accursed, unredeemed, unfortunate, ill-fated, star-crossed, ill-starred, foreordained, predestined, fated, fatal, threatened, menaced, overthrown, undone, cut down, wrecked, ruined, convicted; see also destined 1 , destroyed .
II
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
condemned, damned, sentenced to death, consigned to ruin, destined for destruction, done for, kaput, *had it, *washed up.
ANT.: saved, revived, rescued
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Sentenced to terrible, irrevocable punishment: condemned, fated, foredoomed, lost. See LAW, RELIGION. 2. Condemned, especially to hell: damned, lost. Idiom: gone to blazes. See REWARD.

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