adjective
- suggesting or threatening doom; ominous or foreboding
Usage: literary or formal; relatively rare in modern usage
Examples
- The doomful silence that fell over the room made everyone uneasy.
- Dark clouds gathered in a doomful sky as the storm approached.
- His doomful predictions about the company's future proved accurate.
- The prophet spoke in a doomful tone about the coming catastrophe.
- A doomful sense of inevitability hung over the final act of the play.