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downbeat

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of downbeat

emphasizing or expecting the worst

a downbeat prediction for the company's sales performance in the upcoming year

Synonyms of downbeat

bearish, defeatist, despairing, hopeless, pessimistic

Words Related to downbeat

cynical, fatalistic, nihilist, nihilistic

desperate, discouraging, disheartening, inauspicious, unlikely, unpromising

bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, morose, saturnine, sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen

contrary, hostile, negative

Near Antonyms of downbeat

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, likely, promising, propitious

cheering, comforting, reassuring

favorable, good, positive

idealist, romantic, utopian, visionary

cheerful, cheery, chipper, sunny

Antonyms of downbeat

hopeful, optimistic, Panglossian, Pollyanna, Pollyannaish (also Polyannish), rose-colored, rosy, upbeat

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