Downgrade vs Downward - What's the difference?
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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
Noun
( en noun)
A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
Verb
( downgrad)
To place lower in position.
- The stock was downgraded from 'buy' to 'sell'.
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.
Synonyms
* degrade
* demote
* defame
* reduce
* revert
* ruin
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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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