The Doldrums

Definition: The Doldrums

The Doldrums

Noun

1. A belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific.

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Synonym: The Doldrums

Dejection

Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen.

Crosswords: The Doldrums

Books

• Taking your meetings out of the doldrums (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Switzerland

Manufacturing: With the Swiss economy having emerged from the doldrums of the 1990's, virtually all sectors of the economy are anticipating respectable earnings and prospects for the near future. (references)

Sudan

However, the small industrial sector remains in the doldrums, spending for the war continues to preempt other social investments, and Sudan's inadequate and declining infrastructure inhibits economic growth. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "the doldrums": be in the doldrums ♦ in the doldrums ♦ To be in the doldrums. Additional references.

Czech

v depresi (in the doldrums), stagnovat (be dull, be in the doldrums, stagnate), být skleslý (be down in the dumps, be in the doldrums). (various references)

French

morne (in the doldrums), en plein marasme (in the doldrums). (various references)

Greek 

είμαι στις μαύρες μου (be down in the dumps, be in the doldrums), είμαι μελαγχολικόσ (be in the doldrums). (various references)

Hungarian

uborkaszezon van (business is in the doldrums), rossz hangulatban van (be in the doldrums, have the mumps, to be in the doldrums, to feel blue), pang az üzlet (business is in the doldrums, business is slack), nyomott hangulatban van (have a fit of blues, have the hump, have the mumps, to be in low spirits, to be in the doldrums), mísze van (have a fit of blues, have the blues, to be down in the dumps, to be in the doldrums, to be in the dumps, to be out of sorts, to get cheesed off), az üzlet pang (business is in the doldrums, trade is slack). (various references)

Pig Latin

ethay oldrumsday

Portuguese

estar abatido (be in the doldrums), calmarias (be in the doldrums). (various references)

Romanian

fi deprimat (be down in spirits, be in the doldrums, be in the dumps, be sick at heart, be sorry for, feel blue, feel down in spirits, wilt). (various references)

Russian 

не в духе (in the doldrums, mumpish, out of humour, out of sorts). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potišteno (doldrums: in the doldrums), depresivno (doldrums: in the doldrums). (various references)

Spanish

estar abatido (be in the doldrums, mope, mump). (various references)

Swedish

stagnerande (in the doldrums), nedstämd (depressed, down-hearted, in the doldrums, low), livlös (dead, fishy, in the doldrums, inanimate, insensate, insentient, lifeless), dyster (angry, beetle-browed, black, bleak, blue, cloudy, dark, darksome, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, grave, heavy, humpy, in the doldrums, lugubrious, morose, murky, sad, saturnine, sepulchral), avstannande (in the doldrums). (various references)

Turkish

okyanusun ekvatora yakın durgun kısımları (doldrums). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: doldrums, huddlers, moulders, moulters, mouthers, muddlers, mudholes, shoulder, shrouded, smoulder, toddlers.

-4 letters: dehorts, detours, dourest, drouths, holders, holster, hostler, huddler, huddles, humored, hurdled, hurdles, hurtled, hurtles, hustled, hustler, loudest, lustred, merlots, methods, modules, molders, molters, mothers, moulded, moulder, moulted, moulter, mouthed, mouther, mudders, muddler, muddles, mudhole, oestrum, oldster, redouts, remolds, rousted, ruddles.

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