What's the difference between doldrums and gloom?

Doldrums


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It might sound like chump change, but the PTC alone amounts to $1 billion a year, and industry advocates insist that wind would hit the doldrums without these subsidies.
  • (2) Labour is in the doldrums and we have to ask ourselves why.
  • (3) With rates in the doldrums, the news last week that inflation has reached its highest point in the past two-and-a-half years means many cash savers are now losing money in real terms.
  • (4) It does feel like British chocolate is making a renaissance after being in the doldrums for a few decades.” As well as its network of shops, Hotel Chocolat owns a cocoa plantation on St Lucia, which is home to a luxury hotel where a two-week stay costs up to £10,000.
  • (5) The pound foolishness of the coalition's efforts becomes even clearer when set against its hope that our legal services market can lead the UK out of current economic doldrums.
  • (6) Housing market activity remains stuck in the doldrums, which seems highly likely to maintain downward pressure on prices in the early months of 2011 at least.
  • (7) But if the Tories are split, the pro-EU Lib Dems are back in the invisibility zone and Labour is equivocal, it’s easy to see how the Brexit camp might win the day if the economy is again in the doldrums by 2017.
  • (8) Those efforts, combined with better management and improved stock control, have lifted the company out of the doldrums.
  • (9) For all the optimism and green shoots of recovery after years in the doldrums, the old guard, no matter how minimal their impact on the pitch in France, deserve praise as they leave.
  • (10) So far Fox’s fawning coverage of Trump, and in some cases total avoidance of certain topics unflattering to the president, hasn’t been enough to lift him out of his presidential doldrums.
  • (11) He did a good job of helping Manchester City and Sheffield United out of the doldrums, but perhaps unwisely left the former when a return to Everton became possible, explaining at the time that City felt like an affair whereas Everton was a marriage.
  • (12) More hot acts coming out of the Montreal music scene Doldrums Airick Woodhead AKA Doldrums is Grimes's brother from another mother.
  • (13) On the other side of the equation, those who share Mr Carney's desire to flee the economic doldrums should ask why the Bank's target is only 7%, rather than 6% or lower.
  • (14) I’m not sure where we are on the chart, or when the next comedy doldrums is, but he’ll tell you, and what will rise to take its place.
  • (15) So far this year, 40 companies have raised £5.7bn after the market for new shares went into overdrive following years in the doldrums, figures supplied by Thomson Reuters show.
  • (16) Despite increasing police crackdowns, yakuza membership is rising amid richer pickings from extortion, prostitution, drug smuggling, property deals and even stock market transactions as the Japanese economy emerges from the doldrums.
  • (17) Prices have now increased by 8.6%, or £13,000, since January 2009, when the housing market was in the doldrums, and the society said that unless they fall next month, the annual rate of house price inflation would return to double figures for the first time since May 2007.
  • (18) Business lending remains in the doldrums despite the economic recovery after the Bank of England's Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) recorded another poor performance in the second quarter.
  • (19) Having only recently engaged with the care sector in our role as brand consultants to the National Skills Academy for Social Care , we have a few thoughts on how social care might begin to climb its way out of the doldrums.
  • (20) For anyone seeking out an archetype for Doldrums Britain, Corby has much to offer, at first glance at least.

Gloom


Definition:

  • (n.) Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
  • (n.) A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
  • (n.) Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
  • (n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
  • (v. i.) To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
  • (v. i.) To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
  • (v. t.) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
  • (v. t.) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byatt said that, while she had not wished to present an allegory or a polemic, the story was impelled by a profound sense of gloom about the environment and indeed about all human endeavours.
  • (2) Thus, knowledge of HIV antibody status appears to dispel a sense of gloom in persons who incorrectly believe themselves to be infected with HIV, but does not appear to induce significant distress in those whose expectation of a positive result is confirmed.
  • (3) The Nuit debout has some aspects of a May 68 for the internet age, but with a major difference: the revolutionary students of half a century ago came of age during the trente glorieuses , the 30 glorious years of postwar economic growth, and wanted to crack open a conservative society; those of 2016 are, on the contrary, the children of 30 years of high unemployment, economic gloom and disenchantment with the way representative democracy works.
  • (4) In Dublin, the general mood was summed up by the Evening Herald headline, referring to a slogan from an car advert featuring Henry: "It's Va Va Gloom".
  • (5) 9pm BST: In fresh gloom on Wall Street, the Dow sheds 449 points to close at 10,609.
  • (6) In a day of unremitting gloom, and yet more market turbulence, the Greek government also stood on the precipice of collapse, risking an uncontrolled default, as the government of George Papandreou faced a late-night confidence vote in parliament.
  • (7) Gianni Infantino’s victory offers Fifa a glimmer of hope amid the gloom Read more David Gill, the FA director who also sits on the executive committee at both Uefa and Fifa, said Infantino’s election was “a good day for football”, while the American Fifa executive committee member Sunil Gulati also hailed it as “a good day for the sport”.
  • (8) The charge merely adds to the gloom engulfing Mourinho as he contemplates the ramifications of his side’s fifth defeat in 10 Premier League games.
  • (9) She lurches up from the corner with cheerful gloom.
  • (10) Chelsea v Bournemouth: Premier League – as it happened Read more Mourinho’s post-match gloom reflected as much, his criticisms of the officials all rather half-hearted given the fact that, when he has lambasted perceived mistakes this term, he has been slapped down with heavy fines, a stadium ban and a threat of another to come.
  • (11) The speech will be “very different than some of the doom and gloom we hear from some of the Republican candidates out there”, he told ABC.
  • (12) Although I've learned to appreciate the grim beauty of murkiness, the washrag skies and mud so jealous it clings to every step, this emerald vision in the monochrome gloom is startling.
  • (13) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
  • (14) Carpetright also added to the gloom, axing this year's dividend and warning that it sees "no respite" from the challenges that have forced several high street names into administration in recent weeks.
  • (15) The gloom was soon to build when five minutes after the interval Giggs won a corner with a sprightly run.
  • (16) The plea for government intervention comes as chancellor George Osborne continues to tour China, where figures showed local factory activity shrinking at its fastest pace in six and a half years in September, adding to a sense of gloom over the prospects for the world economy.
  • (17) When Barack Obama was elected US president in the depths of economic gloom, satirical news outlet the Onion carried the headline: "Black man given nation's worst job."
  • (18) The one message that is important for both patients and physicians is that the gloom and doom of the 1960s and 1970s can now be replaced by a spirit of optimism.
  • (19) As Europe scrambled to put together a coherent answer to the biggest challenge the union has faced, EU interior ministers meeting in Amsterdam on Monday compounded a sense of gloom and confusion in the face of ever rising numbers of people heading into Greece from Turkey.
  • (20) It fears that, set against the gloom of the past three years, the enthusiasm produced by even a low level of growth may be enough to keep the government, or at least the Conservatives , in power.

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