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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

gloomy or negative;

e.g. The company had a downbeat sales performance this year due to the pandemic.

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Similar Words

Bearish

Bust

Crash

Depression

Despairing

Downdraft

Downswing

Downtrend

Downturn

Hopeless

Panic

Pessimistic

Recession

Slowdown

Slump

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Opposite Words

Advancement

Auspicious

Beamish

Boom

Bullish

Cheerful

Cheery

Chipper

Development

Encouraging

Fair

Favorable

Golden

Good

Growth

Idealist

Likely

Optimistic

Panglossian

Pollyanna

Progress

Promising

Propitious

Rally

Reassuring

Recovery

Romantic

Roseate

Sunny

Upbeat

Utopian

Visionary

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Related Words

Bleak

Cheerless

Contrary

Depressing

Depression

Desolate

Desperate

Dismal

Dreary

Funereal

Gloomy

Grim

Hostile

Inauspicious

Morose

Negative

Recession

Saturnine

Sepulchral

Slump

Somber

Sullen

Unlikely

Unpromising

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