Downer vs Downward - What's the difference?
downer | downward |
A negative drug trip.
A drug that has depressant qualities.
Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy
* 2009 , (Spike Jonze),
Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
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)- Normally those pills give me a boost, but last night they gave me a downer
- You don't really need to know me. I'm kind of a downer .
Descendants
* (l)Anagrams
* ----downward
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.