Definition of down

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• down is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 8
• down is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 8
• down is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9

Definition of down

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

  Synonyms

  1. john l. h. down
• understood perfectly (adjective)

  Examples

  1. had his algebra problems down

  Synonyms

  1. down pat
  2. mastered
• soft fine feathers (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. down feather
• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the down staircase
  2. the downward course of the stream

  Synonyms

  1. downward
• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. pile
• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position (adverb)

  Examples

  1. don't fall down
  2. rode the lift up and skied down
  3. prices plunged downward

  Synonyms

  1. downward
  2. downwardly
  3. downwards
• lower than previously (adjective)

  Examples

  1. prices are down

  Synonyms

  1. depressed
• filled with melancholy and despondency (adjective)

  Examples

  1. downcast after his defeat
  2. feeling discouraged and downhearted

  Synonyms

  1. blue
  2. depressed
  3. dispirited
  4. down in the mouth
  5. downcast
  6. downhearted
  7. gloomy
  8. grim
  9. low
  10. low-spirited
• eat up completely, as with great appetite (verb)

  Examples

  1. Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal

  Synonyms

  1. consume
  2. demolish
  3. devour
  4. go through
• cause to come or go down (verb)

  Examples

  1. The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
  2. The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet

  Synonyms

  1. cut down
  2. knock down
  3. pull down
  4. push down
• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. fine-tune
  2. polish
  3. refine
• drink down entirely (verb)

  Examples

  1. He downed three martinis before dinner

  Synonyms

  1. belt down
  2. bolt down
  3. drink down
  4. kill
  5. pop
  6. pour down
  7. toss off
• shoot at and force to come down (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. land
  2. shoot down
• (American football) a complete play to advance the football (noun)

  Examples

  1. you have four downs to gain ten yards
• becoming progressively lower (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the down trend in the real estate market
• being or moving lower in position or less in some value (adjective)

  Examples

  1. lay face down
  2. the moon is down
  3. our team is down by a run
  4. down by a pawn
  5. the stock market is down today
• being put out by a strikeout (adjective)

  Examples

  1. two down in the bottom of the ninth
• bring down or defeat (an opponent) (verb)
• not functioning (temporarily or permanently) (adjective)

  Examples

  1. we can't work because the computer is down
• shut (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the shades were down
• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil (noun)
• away from a more central or a more northerly place ()

  Examples

  1. was sent down to work at the regional office
  2. worked down on the farm
  3. came down for the wedding
  4. flew down to Florida
• to a lower intensity ()

  Examples

  1. he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black

See definition of down in Merriam Webster