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Downer vs Downward - What's the difference?

downer | downward |

As a noun downer

is downer (drug).

As an adverb downward is

toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.

As an adjective downward is

moving or sloping down.

downer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A negative drug trip.
    • Normally those pills give me a boost, but last night they gave me a downer
  • A drug that has depressant qualities.
  • Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy
  • * 2009 , (Spike Jonze),
    • You don't really need to know me. I'm kind of a downer .

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    downward

    English

    Adverb

    (en-adv) (or downwards )
  • Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
    • His position in society moved ever downward .
  • * Drayton
    • Their heads they downward bent.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A ring the county wears, / That downward hath descended in his house, / From son to son, some four or five descents.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • moving or sloping down
    • He spoke with a downward glance.

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