doomwatch

English

Etymology

doom +‎ watch

Noun

doomwatch (uncountable)

1. (chiefly attributive) A pessimistic outlook on the future.
   • 1986, W T S Gould, Richard Lawton, Planning for Population Change:

     […] using linear projections of current high levels of population growth and consumption of raw materials produced doomwatch forecasts.

   • 2005, Nancy Jack Todd, A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design:

     Yet however essential it may have been to changing assumptions about energy use, protest and doomwatch activism was never New Alchemy's primary focus.

Related terms

• doomwatcher
• doomwatching

Anagrams

• matchwood