Doldrumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒldɹəm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑldɹəm/
• ハイフネーション: dol‧drum

名詞

doldrum (複数形 doldrums)

1. (slang, obsolete) A slothful or stupid person.

   Synonyms: dullard; see also Thesaurus:idiot

   • 1817 April 30, William Hone, “Political Priestcraft, Continued, in another Epistle to the Rev. Dan[iel] Wilson, […]”, in Hone’s Reformists’ Register, and Weekly Commentary, volume I, number 15, London: Printed by J. D. Dewick, […]; published by William Hone, […], published 3 May 1817, OCLC 54363424, columns 476–477:

     Were there no "tears and miseries," when the half-witted doldrums, thinking they were not big enough to be seen, put themselves on horseback, to bask and frolic in a procession, and meet their man-midwife, or surgeon, or whatever he is, who had left his business at Norwich, to go to London, for the purpose of administering their little nostrum to the Prince Regent?

派生語

• doldrums

形容詞

doldrum (comparative more doldrum, superlative most doldrum)

1. Boring, uninteresting.

   Synonym: humdrum

   She quit her doldrum job and left to seek a life of adventure.

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