DOOMSDAYS Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

doomsdays

noun

plural of doomsday

as in disasters

the day the world ends or is destroyed a warning that doomsday is near doomsday predictions

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Noun

Since 2024, the state and federal governments have spent over half a billion dollars on disasters in Ruidoso — nine times the village’s annual budget.

— Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
These same companies continue to kill the clean energy that is not only cheaper, but try to side-step their glaring responsibility for the increasing cascade of climate disasters.

— Tom Tapp, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of disasters

Noun

There’s a lot of apocalypses happening now in this world, major ones.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026
And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes.

— JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025

Definition of apocalypses

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By century’s end, however, the specter of famine had largely receded (aside from tragedies of war and misgovernment, no small caveat).

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Investigators are still working to determine how Boahene was dragged by the train and ways to prevent similar tragedies.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of tragedies

Noun

When the Gators aren’t generating pressure, the back end of the defense collapses, ranking in the bottom third nationally in pass defense.

— Noah White, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026
The county’s staff report warned that the deteriorating pipe could cause more ground collapses, damage nearby property and interfere with stormwater drainage.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of collapses

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The protagonist becomes a wise-guy version of Benjamin’s Angel of History, watching calamities accumulate before his eyes.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026

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