DOLDRUMS Synonyms

• feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless

• the feeling of being bored by something tedious

• a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)

• weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy

• inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

• a feeling of lack of interest or energy

• inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness

• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

• a person who is not very bright

• a person who evokes boredom

• an informal expression for a mildly depressed state

• (of weather) free from storm or wind

• steadiness of mind under stress

• wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale

• not agitated; without losing self-possession

• make calm or still

• make steady

• become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation

• cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to

• inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation

• a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)

• a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)

• inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation