the doldrumsnoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈdɒl.drəmz/us/ˈdoʊl.drəmz/in the doldrums
informal unsuccessful or showing no activity or development:
Her career was in the doldrums during those years.
UK informal sad and with no energy or enthusiasm
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Unsuccessful (people and things)
- abortive
- achiever
- barren
- be dead in the water idiom
- botched
- counterproductive
- flatline
- frustrated
- futile
- go/get/head nowhere idiom
- inauspicious
- lame duck
- rope
- small-time
- stillborn
- struggling
- unavailing
- unglued
- vainly
- washed up
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the doldrums noun [ plural ] (SEA)
old-fashioned an area of sea where ships are unable to move because there is no wind
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Navigation & shipwrecks
- astrolabe
- buoy
- channel
- chart
- circumnavigate
- dead reckoning
- lane
- lighthouse
- nautical mile
- navigable
- navigate
- navigation
- navigational
- navigator
- refloat
- sea lane
- shipwreck
- sonar
- sound
- wreck
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