doldrums
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
- Usually preceded by the: a state of apathy or lack#Noun|lack of interest#Noun|interest; a situation where one feel#Verb|feels boredom, ennui, or tedium; a state of listlessness or malaise.
- Synonyms: dumps
- I was in the doldrums yesterday and just didn’t feel inspired.
- (nautical) Usually preceded by the: the state of a sailing ship when it is impeded by calm#Noun|calms or light#Adjective|light, baffling winds, and is unable to make progress#Noun|progress.
- 1823, Lord Byron, The Island, or Christian and His Comrades, London: Printed for John Hunt, […], OCLC 927012143 ↗, canto II, stanza XXII, lines 507–509, page 44 ↗:
- [F]rom the bluff-head, where I watched to-day, / I saw her in the doldrums; for the wind / Was light and baffling.
- (nautical, oceanography, by extension) Usually preceded by the: a part of the ocean near the equator where calms, squall#Noun|squalls, and light, baffling winds are common.
- Synonyms: calms, intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ)
- German: Trübsal, trübselige Stimmung, Trübsinn, Lustlosigkeit, Flautenstimmung, Flaute
- Italian: depressione, tristezza
- French: Pot-au-Noir
- German: Kalmengürtel, Innertropische Konvergenzzone
- (obsolete) plural form of doldrum
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