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doomster
noun[ C ]
informaluk /ˈduːm.stər/ us /ˈduːm.stɚ/
a person who believes that very bad things are likely to happen: 预言灾难者，凶事预示者，末日论者
The prime minister hit out at doomsters who said the move would be a disaster.首相猛烈抨击那些认为此举将是一场灾难的末日论者。
I'm something of a doomster when it comes to climate.
The scenes at this year's annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank were as ugly as any doomster could have predicted.
He's a doomster who doesn't want to risk getting sued when everything goes wrong.
The flaw in the analyses of Mr Butler and his fellow members of the doomster school is that they assume history always repeats itself.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not hopeful
a road to nowhereidiom
be in a funkidiom
be on a hiding to nothingidiom
be on the road to nowhereidiom
bleakly
bleakness
dispiritedly
dispiritedness
dispiritingly
doom and gloom
doomed
downcast
hope
hopeless
hopelessly
hopelessness
lose heartidiom
undone
unhopeful
what are you going to do?idiom
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