doomwatch

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noun

A pessimistic outlook on the future.

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Meanings

noundoomwatch (uncountable)
  1. attributiveuncountableA 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
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    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

From doom + watch.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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

MLA

“doomwatch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doomwatch. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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

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