downbeat

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Adjective, Noun
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down=beat

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun downbeat has 1 sense

OXFORD DICTIONARY

downbeat, n. & adj.
--n. Mus. an accented beat, usu. the first of the bar.
--adj.
1 pessimistic, gloomy.
2 relaxed.

THESAURUS

downbeat

Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, arsis, bar beat, beat, bout, circle, circuit, course, cycle, cynical, defeatist, diastole, dismal, gloomy, negative, negativistic, nihilistic, offbeat, pessimist, pessimistic, pulsation, pulse, revolution, rotation, round, series, spell, systole, thesis, throb, turn, uncheerful, upbeat, wheel

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