Doomster

Origin

doom + -ster

Full definition of doomster

Noun

1. Someone who predicts doom
• Chase and Pleasant may have been innocents, but they were smarter than the doomsters who predicted that Chase would lose her fortune, for their New York company, the Ballet Theatre (later the American Ballet Theatre), got off to a phenomenally successful start.
2. (Scotland, archaic) A judge; a deemster.

Synonyms

• doomsayer
• pessimist