doomsayer
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈduːmˌseɪ.ə/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈdumˌseɪ.ɚ/
Noun

doomsayer (plural doomsayers)

  1. One who makes dire predictions about the future; one who predicts doom.
    • 1983, John R. Gribbin, Stephen H. Plagemann, Beyond the Jupiter effect, page 76:
      4: THE DOOMSAYERS
      So many people have written so many books and articles forecasting doom at the end of the twentieth century that we cannot possibly do credit to all of them here.
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