Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Doldrums   /dˈoʊldrəmz/   Listen
Doldrums

noun
1.
A state of inactivity (in business or art etc).  Synonyms: stagnancy, stagnation.
2.
A belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Doldrums" Quotes from Famous Books



... winds. The Harpoon, shaping her course for Norfolk, in the United States, had made but a poor passage of it. She got into the south-east trades, and all went well till they made St. Paul's Rocks, where they were detained by the doldrums and variable winds. Afterwards she passed into the north-east trades, and then, further north, met a series of westerly gales, that ultimately drove her to the Azores, just as her crew were getting very short of water and provisions. ...
— Mr. Meeson's Will • H. Rider Haggard


Words linked to "Doldrums" :   inaction, inactivity, business enterprise, wind, current of air, artistic production, air current, art, inactiveness, business, commercial enterprise, artistic creation


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com