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doomwatch

doomwatch noun: a pessimistic outlook on the future.

Noun

doomwatch (uncountable)

  1. (attributive) A pessimistic outlook on the future.
    • […]using linear projections of current high levels of population growth and consumption of raw materials produced doomwatch forecasts.1986, W T S Gould, Richard Lawton, Planning for Population Change
    • Yet however essential it may have been to changing assumptions about energy use, protest and doomwatch activism was never New Alchemy's primary focus.2005, Nancy Jack Todd, A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design

Origin of doomwatch

From doom + watch.

Questions about doomwatch

What does doomwatch mean?
Doomwatch means a pessimistic outlook on the future.
What part of speech is doomwatch?
Doomwatch is a noun.

Words near doomwatch in the dictionary

  1. doomsters
  2. doomsurfing
  3. doomtard
  4. doomtards
  5. doomward
  6. doomwatch
  7. doomwatcher
  8. doomwatchers
  9. doomy
  10. doomy and gloomy
  11. doon

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