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doomsayer orig. U.S.|ˈduːmseɪə(r)|
[f. doom n. + sayer n.1; cf. soothsayer 2.]
A prophet of doom, esp. one of political or economic disaster.
1961in Webster. 1972Times 22 May 10/5 The doom-sayers conclude that there is no hope of better habits being adopted in time. 1975U.S. News & World Rep. 3 Feb. 46/1 This nation of 55 million people has not lost..its perennial ability to ‘muddle through’ to the surprise of the doomsayers. 1985Washington Post 6 Jan. 3/3 Nor does Revel quite belong in that traditional circle of doomsayers for the West: neither with Marx and Spengler,..nor quite with Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter, and Daniel Bell. |