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doomsayer
noun[ C ]
mainly USuk /ˈduːm.seɪ.ər/ us /ˈduːm.seɪ.ɚ/
someone who says bad things are going to happen: 灾难预言者，末日论者
Despite the doomsayers, the Athenians delivered the Olympic Games when they said they would.尽管有末日论者的悲观言论，但雅典人还是如愿以偿地举办了奥运会。
"I hate to be a doomsayer," he said, "but it's going to be hard to attract new business.""我不想乌鸦嘴，"他说："但是真的很难吸引到新的业务。"
The doomsayers think Indian industry will be wiped out.
Unlike some doomsayers, he has done plenty of homework.
Back then, people like him were considered doomsayers, a chorus of bleak voices prophesying a strange war to come.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
People who make predictions
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diviner
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fortune teller
futurist
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harbinger
palmist
prophet
prophetess
psychic
seer
sibyl
soothsayer
visionary
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