downbeat
IPA: daʊnbˈit
noun
- (music) The accented beat at the beginning of a bar (indicated by a conductor with a downward stroke).
adjective
- Sad or pessimistic.
- Cautiously optimistic.
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Examples of "downbeat" in Sentences
- They are not "downbeat" -- perhaps even when they should be.
- Economists were universally downbeat, which isn't totally surprising.
- Atop lazy swirls of blues riffs, a voice croaks: "It's what you call a downbeat, it's what you call a downbeat."
- Mr. SANDFORD: A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.
- The fifteenth episode of season 3 kicked off the weirdest cycle of episodes in WKRP's run: almost every episode from this one through the end of the season was kind of downbeat and even depressing in spots.
- "Until last week it did seem that the market was ignoring the 'bad news' factors," such as downbeat economic data and oil-demand forecasts, said Mike Sander, an analyst at Sander Capital Advisors in Seattle.
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