adverb
- in a manner suggesting or expressing doom; with a sense of impending disaster or ruin
Usage: literary or formal; often used to describe tone, manner, or atmosphere
Examples
- She spoke doomfully about the approaching storm.
- The prophet doomfully predicted the fall of the kingdom.
- He gazed doomfully at the darkening sky.
- The music swelled doomfully as the villain entered the stage.
- She doomfully warned that time was running out.