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Pessimist vs Doomster - What's the difference?

pessimist | doomster | Synonyms |

Pessimist is a synonym of doomster.


As nouns the difference between pessimist and doomster

is that pessimist is pessimist while doomster is someone who predicts doom.

pessimist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things.

    • Antonyms

    * optimist

    Related terms

    * pessimism * pessimistic

    Hyponyms

    * bear (in finance)

    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