Dictionary

doomy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈduːmi/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English doom Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English doomy From doom + -y.

Meanings

1. Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic
   • What makes Don’t Look Up such a movie of the moment also makes it less of a functional movie at all, and more of a cranky, doomy, occasionally funny headspace. 2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, in AV Club:
   • Their big hit at the time was "Death Valley '69," a typical droney, doomy replay of the Manson murders that was about as illuminating as your average TV mini series. 1988 November 4, Franklin Soults, “Sonic Youth”, in Chicago Reader:
   • The opposite of an escapist blockbuster, the eighth and apparently final outing for Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt is the doomiest and gloomiest yet in the action-adventure franchise. 2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC:
   • To get doomier still, there’s also the pertinent question of whether, given current ecological speculation, the human race will even survive beyond the next century or so – an uncertainty which makes applying one’s imagination to a 22nd or 23rd Century rather academic. 2019 May 14, Hugh Montgomery, “HBO's Years & Years and the horrors of the near-near-future”, in BBC:
   • Those children playing didn't look like doomy little criminals, once you knew their names. 1995, Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Vintage, published 2007, page 29:

Forms

Deriveds

doomily · doominess · doomy and gloomy

Translations (2)

az düşkün (depressing and presimistic) · ru упа́днический (depressing and presimistic)