Synonym: blues, gloom. Similar words: drum, drum up, humdrum, conundrum, caldron, children, cauldron, clumsy. Meaning: ['dɒldrəmz] 
n. 1. a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) 2. a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific.
n. 1. a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) 2. a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific. 
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1 He's been in the doldrums ever since she left him.
2 The property market has been in the doldrums for months.
3 The industry remains in the doldrums, according to official figures out today.
4 Recent economic doldrums have damaged the rural west.
5 He was in the doldrums for the whole winter.
6 Fay is in the doldrums today.
7 Her career was in the doldrums during those years.
8 The economy is in the doldrums.
9 The bond market normally revives after the summer doldrums.
10 Despite these measures,[www.Sentencedict.com] the economy remains in the doldrums.
11 Property sales have been in the doldrums for some time.
12 Fourteen-year-old Trevor is in the doldrums.
13 Recent economic doldrums have hurt the rural west.
14 Beat the summer doldrums by spending a day at the zoo.
15 After years in the doldrums, Opec has grabbed centre stage once more.
16 With the computer business still in the doldrums, Ahmadi quit that to help his wife run the hair accessory business.
17 With stock and bond markets in the doldrums, their trading operations have been badly hit.
18 The stock market is much improved from the doldrums of 1990.
19 Even against a country in the doldrums you just can't expect to turn up and automatically win.
20 The beef industry has been in the doldrums ever since consumers began to turn away from eating red meat.
21 The manufacturing sector is still in the doldrums , analysts say.
22 Economists yesterday disagreed on whether exports could maintain their strength at a time when many other industrial nations are in the doldrums.
23 For much of this century, the mines in Cornwall have been in the doldrums.
24 Miller disagrees with recent stories that the Senior tour has hit a dead period, its biggest names slipping into the doldrums.
25 The great boom of the war years had passed and the docks were settling down to the post war doldrums.
26 On it, Tom reads Sylvia Plath so that the language sparkles in the doldrums.
27 Too much assimilation and one is becalmed in the doldrums and no progress is possible at all.
28 Roddy McDowall makes an appearance as a mad old soldier and lifts the film out of its doldrums.
29 Barbour took over the party when it was in the doldrums following the 1992 election that lost the White House.
30 Now, perhaps, the bombshell that blasted Dole and his campaign out of the doldrums will blast the Republicans into unity.
More similar words: drum, drum up, humdrum, conundrum, caldron, children, cauldron, clumsy, idol, dole, doll, clumsiness, dolly, circumspect, drug, drub, dollop, circumscribe, circumstance, idolatry, doleful, idolize, dolphin, circumstances, drudge, dolorous, indolent, redolent, circumspection, circumstantial.