doom-mongering

noun

The spreading of doom or pessimism.

Meanings

noundoom-mongering (usually uncountable, plural doom-mongerings)

plural doom-mongerings

  1. uncountableusuallyThe spreading of doom or pessimism.

    Some shrug all this off as doom-mongering. Great Britain and Ireland have similar problems, so it is unfair to cast Northern Ireland as dysfunctional, said Ian Marshall, a farmer and former Ulster Unionist party politician who also served in the Irish Senate.

    2023 October 13, Rory Carroll, “‘The hope we had is gone’: how 20 months of stasis has paralysed Northern Ireland”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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APA

doom-mongering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doom-mongering

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “doom-mongering,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doom-mongering.

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