different between downer vs downward
downer
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?da?n?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?da?n?/
- Rhymes: -a?n?(r)
Etymology 1
down +? -er
Noun
downer (plural downers)
- (slang) A negative drug trip.
- Normally those pills give me a boost, but last night they gave me a downer.
- (slang) A drug that has depressant qualities.
- (slang) Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy.
- 2009, Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are
- You don't really need to know me. I'm kind of a downer.
- 2010, Nicole LaPorte, The Men Who Would Be King
- Geffen had never understood why such a downer of a film was being released over the holidays.
- 2009, Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are
- A livestock animal that has collapsed.
- A form of industrial action in which workers down tools and refuse to work.
- C. T. B. Smith, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, Manpower Papers (issue 15, page 158)
- In the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, a strike may be a downer or a stoppage as defined by the Department.
- 1985, Alex Callinicos, Mike Simons, The Great Strike: The Miners' Strike of 1984-5 and Its Lessons
- Cowley experienced a rash of 'downers' — short, sharp, unofficial strikes.
- C. T. B. Smith, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, Manpower Papers (issue 15, page 158)
Synonyms
- (something or someone disagreeable): buzzkill, killjoy, spoilsport; see also Thesaurus:spoilsport
Descendants
- German: Downer
Translations
Etymology 2
Perhaps related to tanner (“sixpence”).
Noun
downer (plural downers)
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) A sixpence.
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
- Nedrow, Rowden, Wonder, Worden, red won, wonder, wondre
German
Adjective
downer
- inflection of down:
- strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- strong genitive/dative feminine singular
- strong genitive plural
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downward
English
Etymology
down +? -ward
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?da?nw?d/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?da?nw?d/
Adverb
downward (comparative more downward, superlative most downward)
- Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
- His position in society moved ever downward.
- The natural disasters put downward pressure on the creditworthiness of the nation’s insurance groups.
- c. 1590s, Michael Drayton, “The Ninth Eglog” in Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall, London: N.L. and I. Flasket (no date), published by the Spenser Society, 1891, p. 94,[1]
- Whose presence, as she went along,
- The prety flowers did greet,
- As though their heads they downward bent
- With homage to her feete.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act III, Scene 7,[2]
- […] a ring the county wears,
- That downward hath succeeded in his house
- From son to son, some four or five descents
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 71,[3]
- […] their Sight was so directed downward, that they did not readily see Objects that were above them […]
- 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book I, Chapter 4,[4]
- Down, downward they went, and yet further down—their descent at each step seeming to outmeasure their advance.
- At a lower level.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, London, Book I, lines 462-463,[5]
- Dagon his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man
- And downward Fish […]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, London, Book I, lines 462-463,[5]
- southward
Synonyms
- down, downwards
Antonyms
- up, upwards
Translations
Adjective
downward (comparative more downward, superlative most downward)
- Moving, sloping or oriented downward.
- He spoke with a downward glance.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[7]
- But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted boar,
- Whose downward eye still looketh for a grave,
- Ne’er saw the beauteous livery that he wore;
- 1728, James Thomson, Spring. A Poem, London: A. Millar, p. 12,[8]
- […] in the Western Sky, the downward Sun
- Looks out illustrious from amid the Flush
- Of broken Clouds […]
- 1897, H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, Chapter 28,[9]
- Emerging into the hill-road, Kemp naturally took the downward direction […]
- 1952, Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, Mineola, New York: Dover, 2015, Chapter 7, p. 73,[10]
- […] Therese saw a downward slant of sadness in her mouth now, a sadness not of wisdom but of defeat.
- Located at a lower level.
- 1713, Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest, London: Bernard Lintott, p. 9,[11]
- In her chast Current oft the Goddess laves,
- And with Celestial Tears augments the Waves.
- Oft in her Glass the musing Shepherd spies
- The headlong Mountains and the downward Skies,
- The watry Landskip of the pendant Woods,
- And absent Trees that tremble in the Floods;
- 1793, Thomas Taylor (translator), The Phædo in The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides and Timæus of Plato, London: Benjamin and John White, p. 235,[12]
- […] often revolving itself under the earth, [the river] flows into the more downward parts of Tartarus.
- 1713, Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest, London: Bernard Lintott, p. 9,[11]
Translations
Anagrams
- downdraw, draw down, drawdown
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