doom and gloom

alternative doom-and-gloom · alternative gloom and doom

1. uncountableSomething considered indicative of feelings of pessimism and despair.

   The economic forecast contained the usual doom and gloom.

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   His sister was all doom and gloom after she lost the part.

   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

   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

   Antonyms: rainbows and unicorns, sunshine and rainbows, beatitude, bliss, delectation, delight, ecstasy, euphoria