Doomer

/ˈduːmə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. One who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or depression, followed by a Malthusian catastrophe.
2. (neologism, sometimes capitalized) Someone who is apathetic or has a negative prospect towards the world.
3. (rare) One who, or that which, dooms or pronounces sentence; judge.

Example Sentences

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."

[…] 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. […]

Doomers, meanwhile, are the nihilistic cousins of “Bloomers” and “Gloomers,” all three gradients of the same 20-something. Whereas Bloomers are well adjusted and Gloomers are depressed because they are not, Doomers have simply stopped trying. They are no longer pursuing friendships or relationships, and get no joy from anything because they know that the world is coming to an end.

Tim Joung, a 20-year-old student in New York, agrees with almost everything that so-called doomers believe: individual action makes little difference, and unscrupulous corporations are at fault for climate change.

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.

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