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Synonyms
- blue devils
- blues
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despond
- despondence
- despondency
- disconsolateness
- dispiritedness
- doldrums
- dolefulness
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- forlornness
- gloom
- gloominess
- glumness
- heartsickness
- joylessness
- melancholy
- miserableness
- mopes
- mournfulness
- oppression
- sadness
- sorrowfulness
- unhappiness
Examples of dumps in a Sentence
I've been down in the dumps all week
Recent Examples on the Web
Volatile markets have put investment banking in the dumps, but there is a silver lining for Wall Street banks.
—Charley Grant, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
The singer was quite generous with the photo dumps, sharing more images of her and Peltz's midnight look in matching silver Maison Valentino cutout minidresses.
—Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 2 Jan. 2023
When fires threatened the city last month, the aid group rented helicopters for water dumps.
—Lesley Wroughton, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
And the breakthrough has opportunities far beyond waste dumps – there are millions more tons still underground that haven’t been viable to mine.
—Thomas Biesheuvel, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2022
From there, some of the storm debris will be taken to municipal dumps and some will be trucked across the state to privately run landfills.
—Anna Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2022
For decades, Valparaíso has expanded with no regulation or urban planning, leading to improvised, chaotic collections of wooden houses along high roads and gorges, which are often used as informal waste dumps.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2014
When Santa's sleigh crash-lands in a junkyard on Christmas Eve, an unfortunate occurrence that has the town down in the dumps in the animated film A Trash Truck Christmas.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
The theory was that a chicken in a generally positive mood would be more likely to assume that the bowl contained something good, like food, and would stride toward it more quickly than a down-in-the-dumps chicken would.
—Emily Anthes Lauren Petracca, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
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“Dumps.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dumps. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
dumps
plural noun
: a dull gloomy state of mind : low spirits
in the dumps
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