doldrums
noun (used with a plural verb)
- a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator between the northern and southern trade winds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- the weather prevailing in this area.
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gloom, stagnation, malaise, slump, stupor, letdown, torpor, blues, disinterest, bummer, dullness, downer, tedium, dejection, listlessness, yawn, boredom, inertia, funk, inactivityExamples from the Web for doldrums
Contemporary Examples of doldrums
But the Republicans have the greatest opportunity to offer an alternate economic vision to the Obama doldrums.
But in these scorching summer doldrums of 2013, you have to wonder: did it have to be this disappointing?
Here's something to chew on while I'm gone: what if the current doldrums are the new normal?
Don't Have Enough to Worry About? Here's One More Thing: Low Growth May be Here to Stay.Megan McArdle
March 4, 2013
The campaign will now stagger through the February doldrums.
They also outline a serious plan of action to move the economy out its doldrums and forward again.
Top Economists on How to Fix the EconomyOctober 12, 2011
Historical Examples of doldrums
For several months Crosson waited about, becalmed in the doldrums.
In a Little TownRupert Hughes
And when you get in the doldrums, or becalmed, it stirs up your blood.
A Little Girl in Old SalemAmanda Minnie Douglas
Well, we reached the tropics, and for three days the Doldrums held us.
The Chronicles of a Gay GordonJos Maria Gordon
After a year in the doldrums, Fleet was going to try to smash the Rebels again.
A Question of CourageJesse Franklin Bone
Larry,” said Muggins, “I think we have got into the doldrums.
Sunk at SeaR.M. Ballantyne