Usually means: Pessimism about future events, outcomes.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. doom and gloom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. doom and gloom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. doom-and-gloom, doom and gloom: Wiktionary
  4. doom-and-gloom, doom and gloom: Dictionary.com
  5. Doom and Gloom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. doom-and-gloom, doom and gloom: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. doom-and-gloom, doom and gloom: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. doom and gloom: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (doom and gloom)

▸ noun:  Something considered indicative of feelings of pessimism and despair.

Similar:
gloominess, darkness, dismalness, despairfulness, downness, despondence, doomedness, gloomth, dismality, despairingness, more...

Adjectives:
surly, moody, dour, dolesome, stern, morose, sombre, waste, dismal, grimly, gloomy

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Similar:
gloominess, darkness, dismalness, despairfulness, downness, despondence, doomedness, gloomth, dismality, despairingness, more...

Adjectives:
surly, moody, dour, dolesome, stern, morose, sombre, waste, dismal, grimly, gloomy



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