gloom

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But I just don't buy this doom and gloom nonsense.

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Quick take

a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispel the gloom"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gloom gathered in one view.

noun

a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispel the gloom"

noun

a feeling of melancholy apprehension

noun

an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gloom.

noun

a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispel the gloom"

noun

a feeling of melancholy apprehension

See also: gloominess, somberness, sombreness

noun

an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office"

Example sentences

But I just don't buy this doom and gloom nonsense.

I don't see any reason for the doom and gloom here.

There’s a feeling of gloom that seems to be growing deeper.

Predictions of doom and gloom are a great deal premature.

When the default expression is "gloom", it's impossible to separate "default gloom" from "actually unhappy.

I don't overcommit anymore and I certainly gained resistance to "aggressive schedules" and visions of doom and gloom tied to deadline skips.

No, FM is being castigated because he has a terrible track record of doom and gloom predictions regarding Android and Linux yet he is constantly sourced by the clueless media.

Suppose someone were to go and ask his neighbors for fire and find a substantial blaze there, and just stay there continually warming himself: that is no different from someone who goes to someone else to get to some of his rationality, and fails to realize that he ought to ignite his own flame, his own intellect, but is happy to sit entranced by the lecture, and the words trigger only associative thinking and bring, as it were, only a flush to his cheeks and a glow to his limbs; but he has not dispelled or dispersed, in the warm light of philosophy, the internal dank gloom of his mind.