gloom and doom
Expecting the worst
Gloom and doom is pessimism about the future, especially when excessive or theatrical: Ignore the gloom and doom from the media—the economy is fine.
The phrase often appears as an adjective: gloom-and-doom predictions.
Sometimes reversed to doom and gloom with no change in meaning.
- dejectionState of lowness
- pessimismExpecting unfavorable outcomes
- glass half emptyNegative perspective on situations
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- catastrophizingImagining worst-case outcomes
dark clouds · worst case scenario · despair · hopelessness · melancholy · misery · woe is me · fatalism · defeatism · sensationalism · doomsayer · cliché · foreboding · hyperbole · apocalypticism · negativity · idiom · alarmism
gloom and doomoptimism
Tendency to expect good
hope · cheerfulness · brightness · buoyancy · good cheer
gloom and doombright future
Anticipated success and happiness
rosy outlook · silver lining · light at the end of the tunnel · better days ahead · bullishness
gloom and doomsunshine and rainbows
Unrealistic perpetual positivity
sweetness and light · good news · glad tidings · silver linings · pep talk
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