doom and gloom en · NOUN
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Meanings
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(uncountable) Something considered indicative of feelings of pessimism and despair.
What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences.
2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC:Doom and gloom abounded among copyright scholars, including many who shared Mr. Gates's basic premise—that software should be covered by property rights.
2008, James Boyle, The Public Domain:His sister was all doom and gloom after she lost the part.
The economic forecast contained the usual doom and gloom.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| doom-and-gloom | alternative | lexicographic | |
| gloom and doom | alternative | lexicographic |
Antonyms
delectation · ravishment · lust · nirvana · sunshine and rainbows · transport · rainbows and unicorns · pleasure · delight · ecstasy · euphoria · beatitude · rapture · bliss