Doomer

Quick meaning: Doomer is a noun meaning One who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or depression, followed by a Malthusian catastrophe.

Meaning

One who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or depression, followed by a Malthusian catastrophe.

More Meanings

1. (neologism, sometimes capitalized) Someone who is apathetic or has a negative prospect towards the world.
2. (rare) One who, or that which, dooms or pronounces sentence; judge.

Example Sentences

Are not the heavens doomers of men's deedes?

That 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.

[…] while a Minnesotan in her early thirties summed up the general influence of apocalyptic popular culture: “I think it has made me more of a doomer. […]

Those 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."

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include collapsitarian, doomist, doomwatcher, doomsdayism, doomtard, calamitist.

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