Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun doldrums

2 senses of doldrums

Sense 1
stagnation, stagnancy, doldrums -- (a state of inactivity (in business or art etc); "economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation")
       => inaction, inactivity, inactiveness -- (the state of being inactive)

Sense 2
doldrums -- (a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific)
       => wind, air current, current of air -- (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere")