as in hopeless
emphasizing or expecting the worst
a downbeat prediction for the company's sales performance in the upcoming year
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Recent Examples of downbeat
Lisa Kailai Han,sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
The bottom line: Voters remain downbeat about the health of the economy.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Then comes the hush between the audience’s hum and the first downbeat, the instant in which everyone present can legitimately hope for a miracle.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
On Friday, however, new housing data painted a more downbeat picture.
—Lisa Kailai Han,sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
The bottom line: Voters remain downbeat about the health of the economy.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
Noun
Much like directors Veronika Franz's and Severin Fiala's earlier film, Goodnight Mommy, The Lodge takes a relatively straightforward story and energizes it with a slick nihilism that lends it the patina of the best downbeat horrors from the 1970s.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Then comes the hush between the audience’s hum and the first downbeat, the instant in which everyone present can legitimately hope for a miracle.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for downbeat
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By that point, most American passengers had reached a point of hopeless exhaustion.Opheli Garcia Lawlor, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
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Eugene is able to carry on after his romance with Lee, while Lee is confined to a life of falling into the same miserable cycles of loneliness and addiction, a feeling manifested by the snake shedding a hopeless tear.Barry Levitt, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
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While an economic downturn is not necessarily a near-term inevitability, uncertainty alone is cause enough for investors to rebalance their portfolios, and gold can be an ideal addition for those who are especially risk-averse.Jaime Catmull, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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Coho and especially Chinook salmon stocks spiked this year in Vancouver Island and its inlets, according to the Pacific Salmon Foundation, after years of downturn.Jules Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2024
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While few constituencies have been spared recrimination, some of the most cynical and pernicious scapegoating has been reserved for the transgender community.Anthony D. Romero, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2024
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Bezos said he’s had a lot of success in life not being cynical.Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
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The firm cited decelerating advertising revenue and a China slowdown as headwinds to growth.Pia Singh, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
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Growth has stagnated as the country struggles with a real estate downturn, growing debt, rising youth unemployment and a slowdown in consumer spending.Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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Notably, Democrats are particularly pessimistic about the future of their own party, while Republicans are riding high.Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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That tracks with longstanding findings that the generation is pessimistic about the right now but upbeat about the future.Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
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Even amid its meteoric rise this year, bitcoin experienced a temporary downswing that slashed one-third of its value, Kenwell noted.Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Just as the proliferation of blood relatives was a powerful stimulant for growth during the era of China’s economic upswing, the rapid evaporation of these same networks may serve as an economic depressant and help cause a downswing.Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2021
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Their story could have been told myriad ways and, if the current TV market had anything to say about it: the best way to tell any true crime is to be as bleak, haunting and gory as possible.Ed Herro, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
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In recent years, people have taken to social media arguing that, while the film might be visually appealing, its underlying message is bleak.John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2024
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Bitcoin could see another couple weeks of stagnation as recent gains are absorbed before resuming its uptrend, according to Fairlead Strategies.Tanaya Macheel, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
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By contrast, agencies such as the International Energy Agency and the U.S. Energy Information Administration are projecting lower figures, suggesting that the oil market may be in for a prolonged period of stagnation.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Downbeat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downbeat. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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