doomsdayer

noun

Etymology

From doomsday + -er.

  1. inherited from dom
  2. inherited from domes
  3. suffixed as doomsdayer — “doomsday + er

Definitions

  1. Synonym of doomsayer.

    • Someone in a crowd outside the barricaded chalet of the doomsdayers began a rocket-style countdown: “Five, four, three, two, one. …”
    • “No way this one’s going to miss us this time,” burbles one bebooted doomsdayer to another.
    • For all the dire warnings doomsdayers like to trumpet about imminent societal collapse, reality suggests that we’re pretty far from a precipice.

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