doom and gloom
Bleak, hopeless forecast
Doom and gloom is a mood of pessimism or expectation of disaster.
The phrase often describes economic forecasts, news coverage, or someone's general outlook: Despite all the doom and gloom, the company had a decent quarter.
Sometimes inverted to gloom and doom with identical meaning.
A person who habitually predicts the worst is a doom-and-gloomer.
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- catastrophizingImagining worst-case outcomes
- worst case scenarioMost unfavorable possible outcome
- despairTotal absence of hope
dark cloud · pessimism · glass half empty · defeatism · hopelessness · woe is me · end times · end of days · desolation · doomscrolling · futility · death spiral · nihilism · depression · fatalism · grimdark · shadow · dark comedy
- doomapocalypse, end times, judgment day, end of days, cataclysm
- mood idiomsbad mood, black mood, dark mood, foul mood, in a mood
- negativitynegativity, pessimism, cynicism, criticism, complaint
- outlookoptimism, pessimism, outlook, worldview, perspective
- fearmongeringscaremongering, fearmongering, scare tactics, fear tactics, alarmism
- despairdespair, hopelessness, desolation, despondency, dejection
doom and gloomoptimism
Tendency to expect good
hope · positivity · sunny disposition · rose-colored glasses · hopefulness
doom and gloomsunshine and rainbows
Unrealistic perpetual positivity
sweetness and light · good news · glad tidings · celebration · jubilation
doom and gloomsunshine and rainbows
Unrealistic perpetual positivity
sweetness and light · brightness · cheeriness · levity · merriment
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