doomsayers
Predictors of catastrophe
Doomsayers are people who predict disaster or catastrophe, especially those who do so habitually or with apparent relish.
The term usually carries a dismissive tone, suggesting the predictions are exaggerated or unfounded: The doomsayers warned the economy would collapse, but it recovered.
Climate skeptics call environmentalists doomsayers; environmentalists say the doomsayers were right all along.
Pervasive dimness or dejection
- despairTotal absence of hope
- hopelessnessState without hope
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- fatalismDoctrine of inevitable outcomes
negativity · defeatism · melancholy · nihilism · cynicism · misanthropy · skepticism · disillusionment
Divinely inspired messenger
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- cassandraDisbelieved predictor of misfortune
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
prediction · forewarning · omen · portent · augury · presage · foreshadowing · divination
Prophesied concluding era
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- cataclysmViolent, large-scale disaster
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
rapture · tribulation · eschatology · antichrist · apocalyptic · millennialism · dystopia · collapse
One who overstates threats
- scaremongeringSpreading exaggerated threats
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- hysteriaUncontrollable emotional excess
- sensationalismOverhyped news coverage
hyperbole · demagoguery · exaggeration · disinformation · paranoia · conspiracy · agitprop · propaganda
gloom
Pervasive dimness or dejection
- despairTotal absence of hope
- hopelessnessState without hope
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
fatalism · negativity · defeatism · melancholy · nihilism · cynicism · misanthropy · skepticism · disillusionment · world-weariness
prophet
Divinely inspired messenger
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- cassandraDisbelieved predictor of misfortune
harbinger · prediction · forewarning · omen · portent · augury · presage · foreshadowing · divination · seer
end-times
Prophesied concluding era
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- cataclysmViolent, large-scale disaster
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
annihilation · rapture · tribulation · eschatology · antichrist · apocalyptic · millennialism · dystopia · collapse · oblivion
alarmist
One who overstates threats
- scaremongeringSpreading exaggerated threats
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- hysteriaUncontrollable emotional excess
sensationalism · hyperbole · demagoguery · exaggeration · disinformation · paranoia · conspiracy · agitprop · propaganda · rumormongering
- negativistspessimists, defeatists, doomers, negative Nellies, Debbie Downers
doomsayersoptimists
Those expecting favorable results
cheerleaders · boosters · utopians · hopefuls · idealists