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Downer   /dˈaʊnər/   Listen
Downer

noun
1.
A drug that reduces excitability and calms a person.  Synonyms: depressant, sedative, sedative drug.



Down

adjective
1.
Being or moving lower in position or less in some value.  "The moon is down" , "Our team is down by a run" , "Down by a pawn" , "The stock market is down today"
2.
Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place.  Synonym: downward.  "The downward course of the stream"
3.
Becoming progressively lower.
4.
Being put out by a strikeout.
5.
Understood perfectly.  Synonyms: down pat, mastered.
6.
Lower than previously.  Synonym: depressed.  "Prices are down"
7.
Shut.
8.
Not functioning (temporarily or permanently).
9.
Filled with melancholy and despondency.  Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited.  "Gloomy predictions" , "A gloomy silence" , "Took a grim view of the economy" , "The darkening mood" , "Lonely and blue in a strange city" , "Depressed by the loss of his job" , "A dispirited and resigned expression on her face" , "Downcast after his defeat" , "Feeling discouraged and downhearted"



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"Downer" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Now, a 'sun-downer,' or 'tussocker'—for the terms are synonymous—is a pastoral loafer; one who loiters about till dusk, and then makes for the nearest station or hut, to ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... whole party started for a drive of twenty-five miles over the mountains in a big four-horse drag, we being the guests for that day of Mr. J. K. Downer, a wealthy citizen of Melbourne. Through a rolling and well-settled country we bowled along until we reached the foot-hills, that were green and well-wooded, the clear notes of Mrs. Leigh Lynch's cornet every now and then waking the echoes. After three hours' ride we reached Fern Glen, the residence ...
— A Ball Player's Career - Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson • Adrian C. Anson



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