Difference between Lost and Doomed

What is the difference between Lost and Doomed?

Lost as an adjective is when one is unable to find his or her way while Doomed as an adjective is certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.

Lost

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: When one is unable to find his or her way

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons.

Example sentence: Not all those who wander are lost.

Doomed

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.

Example sentence: A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

We hope you now know whether to use Lost or Doomed in your sentence.

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