Definitions for downbeat

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downbeat down·beat

Spelling: [doun-beet]

IPA: /ˈdaʊnˌbit/

Downbeat is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 311 anagrams from letters in downbeat (abdenotw).

Definitions for downbeat

noun

1. the downward stroke of a conductor's arm or baton indicating the first or accented beat of a measure.
2. the first beat of a measure.

adjective

1. gloomy or depressing; pessimistic:

Origin of downbeat

1875-80; down¹ + beat (noun)

Examples for downbeat

Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, downbeat, The New Yorker, and more.

Full of lively, comic storytelling and resonant in theme—youth ends; how sad—it casts a downbeat and very of-the-moment mood.

Why did the Russian Ministry of Culture help to finance such a downbeat portrait of contemporary Russia?

Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, downbeat, the New Yorker, and more.

Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, downbeat, The New Yorker and more.

Most affecting is his romance with a cute, downbeat girl inmate named Andrea.

Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, the New York Times, Vogue, downbeat, the New Yorker, and more.