Doomed vs. Fey: What's the Difference?
Doomed and Fey Definitions
Doomed
Inevitable destruction or ruin
A tyrant who finally met his doom.
Fey
Overrefined, exaggerated, or affected
"She said the word in a deliberately fey and pretentious manner, striking a pose" (Jenefer Shute).
Doomed
A decision or judgment, especially an official condemnation to a severe penalty.
Fey
Effeminate
"a fey snap of the wrist" (Michael Eric Dyson).
Doomed
Judgment Day.
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Fey
Having or displaying an otherworldly, magical, or fairylike aspect or quality
"She's got that fey look as though she's had breakfast with a leprechaun" (Dorothy Burnham).
Doomed
A statute or ordinance, especially one in force in Anglo-Saxon England.
Fey
Having visionary power; clairvoyant.
Doomed
To condemn to ruination or death.
Fey
Appearing touched or crazy, as if under a spell.
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Doomed
To cause to come to an inevitable bad end; destine to end badly
"With the benefit of hindsight, the fans felt that they knew all along that the Red Sox were doomed to lose" (Daniel L. Schachter).
Fey
Fated to die soon.
Doomed
Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
Fey
Full of the sense of approaching death.
Doomed
(archaic) Assured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.
Fey
About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
Doomed
Simple past tense and past participle of doom
Fey
(obsolete) Dying; dead.
Doomed
People who are destined to die soon;
The agony of the doomed was in his voice
Fey
Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
Doomed
Marked for certain death;
The black spot told the old sailor he was doomed
Fey
Overrefined, affected.
Doomed
In danger of the eternal punishment of hell;
Poor damned souls
Fey
Strange or otherworldly.
Doomed
Marked by or promising bad fortune;
Their business venture was doomed from the start
An ill-fated business venture
An ill-starred romance
The unlucky prisoner was again put in irons
Fey
Spellbound.
Doomed
(usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate;
Doomed to unhappiness
Fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination
Fey
Magical or fairylike.
Fey
Fairy folk collectively.
Fey
Fated; doomed.
Fey
Faith.
Fey
To cleanse; to clean out.
Fey
Slightly insane
Fey
Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness;
Thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning
The fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday
