down - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

(American football) a complete play to advance the football

Synonyms

• down

More generic

• play
• turn

Noun

soft fine feathers

Synonyms

• down
• down feather

More generic

• feather
• plumage
• plume

More specific

• duck down
• goose down
• plumule
• swan's down

Noun

fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

Synonyms

• down
• pile

More generic

• hair

More specific

• lanugo

Noun

(usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

Synonyms

• down

More generic

• highland
• upland

Noun

English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

Synonyms

• Down
• John L. H. Down

Verb

improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

Synonyms

• down
• fine-tune
• polish
• refine

More generic

• ameliorate
• amend
• better
• improve
• meliorate

More specific

• civilise
• civilize
• cultivate
• educate
• over-refine
• overrefine
• school
• train

Verb

bring down or defeat (an opponent)

Synonyms

• down

More generic

• defeat
• get the better of
• overcome

Verb

eat up completely, as with great appetite

Synonyms

• consume
• demolish
• devour
• down
• go through

More generic

• eat up
• finish
• polish off

Verb

drink down entirely

Synonyms

• belt down
• bolt down
• down
• drink down
• kill
• pop
• pour down
• toss off

More generic

• drink
• imbibe

Verb

cause to come or go down

Synonyms

• cut down
• down
• knock down
• pull down
• push down

More generic

• strike

More specific

• submarine

Verb

shoot at and force to come down

Synonyms

• down
• land
• shoot down

Adjective

filled with melancholy and despondency

Synonyms

• blue
• depressed
• dispirited
• down
• down in the mouth
• downcast
• downhearted
• gloomy
• grim
• low
• low-spirited

Related

• dejected

Adjective

not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

Synonyms

• down

Related

• inoperative

Adjective

shut

Synonyms

• down

Related

• lowered

Adjective

lower than previously

Synonyms

• depressed
• down

Related

• low

Adjective

understood perfectly

Synonyms

• down
• down pat
• mastered

Related

• perfect

Adjective

being put out by a strikeout

Synonyms

• down

Related

• out

Adjective

extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

Synonyms

• down
• downward

Related

• descending

Adjective

becoming progressively lower

Synonyms

• down

Related

• falling

Adjective

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

Synonyms

• down

Related

• behind
• downbound
• downcast
• downfield
• downward
• fallen
• set
• thrown
• weak

Opposite / Antonyms

• up

Also See

• descending
• low

spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

Synonyms

• down
• downward
• downwardly
• downwards

Opposite / Antonyms

• up

away from a more central or a more northerly place

Synonyms

• down

Opposite / Antonyms

• up

paid in cash at time of purchase

Synonyms

• down

in an inactive or inoperative state

Synonyms

• down

to a lower intensity

Synonyms

• down

Opposite / Antonyms

• up

from an earlier time

Synonyms

• down

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