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Doomster vs Boomster - What's the difference?

doomster | boomster |

As nouns the difference between doomster and boomster

is that doomster is someone who predicts doom while boomster is one engaged in booming the market or a political candidate for office; one who works up a boom.

doomster

English

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.

    • Synonyms

    *doomsayer *pessimist

    boomster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One engaged in booming the market or a political candidate for office; one who works up a boom.