doomsayerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From doom +‎ sayer.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈduːmˌseɪ.ə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈdumˌseɪ.ɚ/

名詞

doomsayer (plural doomsayers)

1. One who makes dire predictions about the future; one who predicts doom.
   • 1970, Frank Herbert, New world or no world, page 141:

     Even from the doomsayers you hear reflections of hope. Nobody wants "it" to happen. In his darkest moments, man is aware that, while he may be limited, humankind need not be.

   • 1983, John R. Gribbin, Stephen H. Plagemann, Beyond the Jupiter effect, page 76:

     4: THE DOOMSAYERS¶ So many people have written so many books and articles forecasting doom at the end of the twentieth century that we cannot possibly do credit to all of them here.

   • 2020 December 31, Lauren Jackson, “News That Can Last a Million Years”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     He is not a doomsayer or a conspiracy theorist. A ceramist, Mr. Kunze simply inhabits a longer view of history, one in which humans are the dinosaurs, facing down a probable extinction.

   • 2023 November 25, Richard Waters, John Thornhill, “Tech's philosophical rift over AI”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:

     Critics of the doomsayers, meanwhile, are becoming more outspoken.

同意語

• apocalyptic, apocalypticist
• doomsdayer
• doomtard (slang, derogatory)

派生語

関連する語

• doomsaying

参考

• doomer, doomist
• pessimist
• millenarian, millenarianist, millenarist, millenialist
• soothsayer

アナグラム

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