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Doldrums   Listen
noun
doldrums  n. pl.  A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; so called by sailors.
To be in the doldrums, to be in a state of listlessness ennui, or tedium.





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"Doldrums" Quotes from Famous Books



... to have little to say, now in this precious doldrums where we were becalmed, between the distant past and the unlogged future. We had not a particle of shade, not a trace of coolness: the sun was high, all our rocky recess was a furnace, fairly reverberant with the heat; the flies (and I vaguely ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin


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


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