doomsayer

American  

[doom-sey-er] / ˈdumˌseɪ ər /

noun

1. a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.

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Other Word Forms

• doomsaying adjective

Etymology

Origin of doomsayer

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

Example Sentences

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

From Salon

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

From Salon

I am not a “doomsayer” or “alarmist.”

From Salon

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.

From Los Angeles Times

Chief doomsayer Eliezer Yudkowsky recently argued that the most likely AGI outcome "under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die."

From Salon