doom-monger
Prophet of disaster
A doom-monger is someone who habitually predicts disaster or emphasizes the worst possible outcomes.
The term is mildly pejorative, suggesting the predictions are exaggerated or self-serving: Climate doom-mongers have been wrong before.
Also doom-mongering as noun and adjective: All this doom-mongering about the economy is tiresome.
One who stokes alarm
- scaremongerOne spreading exaggerated fears
- sensationalistOne who inflames reactions
- catastrophistOne expecting sudden calamities
- CassandraIgnored prophet of doom
Habitual dissenter
- pessimistOne expecting negative outcomes
- cynicDoubter of good intentions
- defeatistOne expecting inevitable failure
- fatalistBeliever in predetermined outcomes
killjoy · wet-blanket · negativist · spoilsport · Eeyore · party-pooper · buzzkill · hopelessness
Total civilizational collapse
- end-timesProphesied concluding era
- collapseSudden structural failure
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
One who foretells outcomes
- forecasterOne who predicts events
- predictorOne who foretells events
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- omenProphetic indicator
warning · foretelling · revelation · rapture · tribulation
fearmonger
One who stokes alarm
- scaremongerOne spreading exaggerated fears
- sensationalistOne who inflames reactions
- catastrophistOne expecting sudden calamities
naysayer
Habitual dissenter
- pessimistOne expecting negative outcomes
- cynicDoubter of good intentions
- defeatistOne expecting inevitable failure
fatalist · killjoy · wet-blanket · negativist · spoilsport · Eeyore · party-pooper · buzzkill · hopelessness · bleakness
apocalypse
Total civilizational collapse
- end-timesProphesied concluding era
- collapseSudden structural failure
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
annihilation · cataclysm · meltdown · dystopia · overpopulation
prognosticator
One who foretells outcomes
- forecasterOne who predicts events
- predictorOne who foretells events
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
omen · warning · foretelling · revelation · rapture · tribulation
- grumpsgrouch, grump, curmudgeon, sourpuss, crank
doom-mongercheerleader
Team spirit performer
booster · reassurer · morale-booster · ray of sunshine · encourager