day of reckoning

1. 1.

   (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives

   SynonymsJudgment DayJudgement DayDay of JudgmentDay of JudgementDoomsdayLast JudgmentLast JudgementLast Dayeschatondoomsdaycrack of doomend of the world

   Broaderday

   New Testament

2. 2.

   an unpleasant or disastrous destiny

   “everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it”

   “that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world”

   Synonymsdoomdoomsdayend of the world

   Broaderdestiny

Questions about day of reckoning

What does day of reckoning mean?

day of reckoning means "(New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for day of reckoning?

Close synonyms include Judgment Day, Judgement Day, Day of Judgment, Day of Judgement, Doomsday. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is day of reckoning a common word?

day of reckoning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.