doomsayer

[doom-sey-er]

noun

1. a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.

Other Word Forms

• doomsaying adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of doomsayer¹

1950–55; doom + say ¹ + -er ¹; naysayer, soothsayer

Example Sentences

I have been accused of being a doomsayer, but this is not true.

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While I am not a doomsayer, with a catastrophic meteor or nuclear event, large swaths of civilization could be changed forever.

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I am not a “doomsayer” or “alarmist.”

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He blamed the media for fears of the second term that Trump is promising, singling out MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid as a doomsayer.

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Elsewhere, McKinnon played a Scottish Santa elf doomsayer who survives a whale attack, a mom who hates all the gifts she’s giving her kids, a grandmother in a sketch about a creepy toy pet named Pongo, a cat enthusiast at Whiskers R We, an executive at a company’s Yankee Swap party that goes wrong, and a young actor who is asked to cry in a Judy Garland film.

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