doomsayer

[ doom-sey-er ]

noun

1. a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.

Other Words From

• doomsaying adjective noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of doomsayer¹

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

Example Sentences

I am not a “doomsayer” or “alarmist.”

From Salon

He blamed the media for fears of the second term that Trump is promising, singling out MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid as a doomsayer.

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

Dr. Hinton’s journey from A.I. groundbreaker to doomsayer marks a remarkable moment for the technology industry at perhaps its most important inflection point in decades.

From New York Times