Definitions for downbeats

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downbeats down·beat

Spelling: [doun-beet]

IPA: /ˈdaʊnˌbit/

Downbeats is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 617 anagrams from letters in downbeats (abdenostw).

Definitions for downbeats

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 downbeats

1875-80; down¹ + beat (noun)

Examples for downbeats

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

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

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.

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.

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