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Pessimistic vs Doomwatch - What's the difference?

pessimistic | doomwatch |

As an adjective pessimistic

is marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst.

As a noun doomwatch is

(chiefly|attributive) a pessimistic outlook on the future.

pessimistic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst.
    • a pessimistic view of the future
  • Pertaining to the worst-case scenario.
    • a pessimistic estimate

    Antonyms

    * optimistic

    Related terms

    * pessimal * pessimism * pessimist

    doomwatch

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (chiefly, attributive) A pessimistic outlook on the future.
  • * 1986 , W T S Gould, Richard Lawton, Planning for Population Change
    • using linear projections of current high levels of population growth and consumption of raw materials produced doomwatch forecasts.
  • * 2005 , Nancy Jack Todd, A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design
    • Yet however essential it may have been to changing assumptions about energy use, protest and doomwatch activism was never New Alchemy's primary focus.

    Related terms

    * doomwatcher