The word 'doomsayer' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who predicts dire and gloomy outcomes. For example, "The doomsayer predicted that the economy would collapse."
Only manganese and zinc were exceptions (see chart 1).Dr Simon frequently offers to repeat the bet with any prominent doomsayer, but has not yet found a taker.Others have yet to cotton on.
Dick Cheney, America's vice-presidential doomsayer, this week warned Russia against "intimidation or blackmail, either by supply manipulation or attempts to monopolise transportation".It is true that Mr Putin regards economic success as the best route to geopolitical influence.
The oft-repeated claim that "Dr Simon frequently offers to repeat the bet with any prominent doomsayer, but has not yet found a taker," is false.Obviously Dr Ehrlich and his fellow greens were wrong when, in 1980, they took the prices of common metals as measurable surrogates for overall ecological health.
"Whole cultures, like individual people, do run down," the doomsayer opines, echoing disillusioned Italophiles since at least the early Middle Ages.
Seely saw our encounter with the doomsayer more charitably than Hofstadter might have.
It also maintains his high standard of social indignation, taunting "that endless middle-class cycle of choices that are no choices at all" — ouch! — and making you wonder, as always, how a doomsayer of his stripe should have proved such good company for so long.
Will the country defy the doomsayers and unlock the €7.2bn in held-up bailout funds it so desperately requires?
On the other, there are the doomsayers who warn that he might be another Aaron Lennon, his football talents prematurely frozen in carbonite.
When archaeologists dug up Mayan calendars that ominously seemed to run out in the final days of 2012, some doomsayers predicted the end of the world.
Indeed, they have intermingled and intermarried so much that they are barely noticeable as a separate group.The doomsayers about immigration have always been wrong before.
Some 350 white separatists held their own ballot in the little town of Orania, but everyone else recognised the legitimacy of South Africa's second all-race local elections on December 5th.Contrary to what many doomsayers predicted before 1994, when the apartheid government finally surrendered to majority rule, South Africa has neither plunged into civil war nor lapsed into despotism.
