doldrums
noun
[ ˈdɒldrəmz ]
• a state or period of stagnation or depression.
• "the mortgage market has been in the doldrums for three years"
Similar:
depression,
melancholy,
gloom,
gloominess,
glumness,
downheartedness,
dejection,
despondency,
dispiritedness,
heavy-heartedness,
heartache,
unhappiness,
sadness,
misery,
woe,
dismalness,
despair,
pessimism,
hopelessness,
inertia,
apathy,
listlessness,
malaise,
boredom,
tedium,
ennui,
low spirits,
blues,
blahs,
inactive,
quiet,
slow,
slack,
sluggish,
subdued,
stagnant,
static,
inert,
flat,
dull,
• an equatorial region of the Atlantic Ocean with calms, sudden storms, and light unpredictable winds.
• "Hurricane Verity had been born in the doldrums"
Origin:
late 18th century (as doldrum ‘dull, sluggish person’): perhaps from dull, on the pattern of tantrums .
