A general feeling of pessimism or despondency:the national feeling of doom and gloom...
Those who predicted doom and gloom at the start of the campaign will no doubt be feeling rather smug.
‘It's not all gloom and doom,’ he says, with a twinkle in his eye.
The one good thing about all this gloom and doom, I thought to myself, is that it would be highly unlikely that my neighbor's gardeners would appear on a day like this.