Downgrade vs Downward - What's the difference?
downgrade | downward |
To place lower in position.
To 'dumb down', reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts.
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(meteorology) to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
(computing) To revert software back to an older version.
Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
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As a noun downgrade
is a reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.As a verb downgrade
is to place lower in position.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.downgrade
English
Verb
(downgrad)- The stock was downgraded from 'buy' to 'sell'.
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Synonyms
* degrade * demote * defame * reduce * revert * ruindownward
English
Adverb
(en-adv) (or downwards )- His position in society moved ever downward .
- Their heads they downward bent.
- A ring the county wears, / That downward hath descended in his house, / From son to son, some four or five descents.