States and conditions
Synonyms for doldrums
The synonym for doldrums recorded in this bank is stagnation, in the sense "a state of stagnation, inactivity, or low spirits, especially in business". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for doldrums
- stagnationnoun, in the sense "a state of stagnation, inactivity, or low spirits, especially in business"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day doldrums is audited in a second meaning.
a state of stagnation, inactivity, or low spirits, especially in business
Sales slipped into the doldrums after the holiday rush ended.
The true synonym
stagnation
Same sentence, swapped: Sales slipped into the stagnation after the holiday rush ended.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- quandary
- backlash
- windfall
Where doldrums turns up in the game
doldrums is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play doldrums
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so doldrums reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because states and conditions is the company doldrums keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. doldrums carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.