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View synonyms for comedown

comedown

[ kuhm-doun ]

noun

  1. an unexpected or humiliating descent from dignity, importance, or wealth.


comedown

/ ˈkʌmˌdaʊn /

noun

  1. a decline in position, status, or prosperity
  2. informal.
    a disappointment
  3. slang.
    a depressed or unexcited state


verb

  1. to come to a place regarded as lower
  2. to lose status, wealth, etc (esp in the phrase to come down in the world )
  3. to reach a decision

    the report came down in favour of a pay increase

  4. often foll by to to be handed down or acquired by tradition or inheritance
  5. to leave college or university
  6. foll by with to succumb (to illness or disease)
  7. foll by on to rebuke or criticize harshly
  8. foll by to to amount in essence (to)

    it comes down to two choices

  9. slang.
    to lose the effects of a drug and return to a normal or more normal state
  10. informal.
    (of a river) to flow in flood

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Word History and Origins

Origin of comedown1

First recorded in 1555–65; noun use of verb phrase come down

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Example Sentences

One is as a big comedown from the size of the crowds that watched her on broadcast television.

I mean to land up in Minsk, working in a grubby little factory is quite a comedown.

I got the impression he was a bitter man because, I imagine when he defected to Russia, it was comedown.

Poor Peggy—it was rather a comedown after her fairy visions.

"So long as nobody in society hears of this sudden comedown, we shall pull through," he said.

And at Anagni he may certainly rest for the night, though his quarters may be a comedown not only from Rome but from Velletri.

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