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doomer

noun
/ˈduːmə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English domere, from Old English dōmere (“judge”), equivalent to doom + -er. The more recent sense was popularized via a meme, “30 Year-Old Boomer”. The derivations of which are other words that end in -oomer, describing various personality types.

  1. inherited from dōmere — “judge”
  2. inherited from domere

Definitions

  1. One who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or…

    One who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or depression, followed by a Malthusian catastrophe.

    • Those who suggest the likely return of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (famine, pestilence, war, and death) are more vocal than ever before despite being labeled Malthusian or just "doomer."
    • […] while a Minnesotan in her early thirties summed up the general influence of apocalyptic popular culture: “I think it has made me more of a doomer. […]

  2. Someone who is apathetic or has a negative prospect towards the world.

    • Tim Joung, a 20-year-old student in New York, agrees with almost everything that so-called doomers believe: individual action makes little difference, and unscrupulous corporations are at fault for climate change.

  3. One who, or that which, dooms or pronounces sentence

    One who, or that which, dooms or pronounces sentence; judge.

    • Are not the heavens doomers of men's deedes?
    • That fatal look of a common intelligence, of a common assent, was exchanged among the doomers of the prisoner's life and death, as the judge concluded.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A player of the video game Doom.

      • I am not a female Doomer, but I did "catch" my fiance playing Doom the other day. It led us to a discussion of why ID didn't put the option in to choose a female character.

    2. Alternative letter-case form of doomer.

    3. Alternative letter-case form of Doomer (“player of DOOM”).

      • Along with many, many other places where DOOMers frequent. […] NOTE DMCL Distribution Please feel free to distribute the list to anywhere the DOOMers may be.
      • Although diehard DOOM'''ers will no doubt revel in killing the thrice re-animated creatures, this is essentially a dead game in more ways than one.

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Derived

doomerism, doomerist

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doomer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA