Meaning

5 senses
  1. A doom-and-gloomer; a pessimist.

  2. A doom-and-gloomer; a pessimist.

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

  3. (capitalized, neologism, sometimes)Someone who is apathetic or has a negative prospect towards the world.

  4. A techno-pessimist, in particular concerning artificial intelligence.

  5. (archaic, rare)One who, or that which, dooms, or pronounces a sentence; a judge.

Origin

From Middle English domere, from Old English dōmere (“judge”), equivalent to doom + -er. T

From Middle English domere, from Old English dōmere (“judge”), equivalent to doom + -er. The more recent sense was popularized via a meme, “30 Year-Old Boomer” (first posted in April 2018), the derivations of which are other words that end in -oomer, describing various personality types.

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Forms

plural: doomers
Singulardoomer
Pluraldoomers

regular

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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