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noun Music.
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
3.
gloomy or depressing; pessimistic: Hollywood movies seldom have downbeat endings.
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Downbeat
is always a great word to know.
So is minor. Does it mean:
| interval smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding major interval |
| chord which contains an augmented interval |
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World English Dictionary
| downbeat (ˈdaʊnˌbiːt) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | music Compare upbeat the first beat of a bar or the downward gesture of a conductor's baton indicating this |
| —adj | |
| 2. | informal depressed; gloomy |
| 3. | informal relaxed; unemphatic |
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Word Origin & History
downbeat
1876, in ref. to downward stroke of a conductor's baton; 1952 in fig. sense of "pessimistic," but probably just from the association of the word down, since the beat itself is no more pessimistic than the upbeat (q.v.) is optimistic.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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