Doomer

Origin

doom + -er

Full definition of doomer

Noun

1. One who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or depression, followed by a Malthusian catastrophe.
• 2009, David Holmgren, Future ScenariosThose who suggest the likely return of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (famine, pestilence, war, and death) are more vocal than ever before despite being labeled Malthusian or just "doomer."
2. (rare) One who, or that which, dooms.
• 1599?, William Shakespeare, As You Like ItAre not the heavens doomers of men's deedes?
• 1869, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Prose WorksThat fatal look of a common intelligence, of a common assent, was exchanged among the doomers of the prisoner's life and death, as the judge concluded.

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• moored
• roomed