doomsday — English Dictionary

Noun

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

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   • Countable
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2. Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.

   Usage

   • Judaism
   • capitalized
   • Countable
   • sometimes
   • Uncountable

3. Any day of great death and destruction; end of the world; an apocalypse.

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4. Any of the memorable dates used in the doomsday rule for computing weekdays from dates.

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   • Uncountable

Adjective

1. Concerned with or predicting future universal destruction.

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   • not-comparable

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

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   • not-comparable

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   The Sages chose to end the haftarah with this message of hope, in contrast to the episode's last verse with its doomsday warning that "if you persist in your wrongdoing, both you and your king shall be swept away."

3. Capable of causing widespread or total destruction.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

Noun

1. (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives

   Synonyms

   Judgment DayJudgement DayDay of JudgmentDay of JudgementDoomsdayLast JudgmentLast JudgementLast Dayeschatonday of reckoningcrack of doomend of the world

   Broader terms

   day

2. an unpleasant or disastrous destiny

   Synonyms

   doomday of reckoningend of the world

   Broader terms

   destinyfate

   Examples

   everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it

   that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world