Noun

(en noun)

One who makes dire predictions about the future; one who predicts doom.

* 1970 , Frank Herbert, New world or no world , page 141:

Even from the doomsayers you hear reflections of hope. Nobody wants "it" to happen. In his darkest moments, man is aware that, while he may be limited, humankind need not be.

* 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.

Noun

(en noun)

Someone who predicts doom

*{{quote-news, 1988, January 29, Dorothy Samachson, Dance Notes: remembering Antony Tudor, conscience of the ABT, Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Chase and Pleasant may have been innocents, but they were smarter than the doomsters who predicted that Chase would lose her fortune, for their New York company, the Ballet Theatre (later the American Ballet Theatre), got off to a phenomenally successful start. }}

(Scotland, archaic) A judge; a deemster.