(slang, obsolete) A slothful or stupid person.
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, …
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Boring, uninteresting.
She quit her doldrum job and left to seek a life of adventure.
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