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
Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Surveys suggest that consumers also have turned much more downbeat about the outlook, fueling concern that this pessimism will eventually translate to less spending.
—Colby Smith, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 May 2025
The first act is genuinely atrocious, a mess of story threads revolving around an uninteresting villain in the AI Entity that feels far too downbeat and sad for this franchise.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
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Adjective
Even a second-act nighttime scene in a Parisian downpour is far from downbeat.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Surveys suggest that consumers also have turned much more downbeat about the outlook, fueling concern that this pessimism will eventually translate to less spending.
—Colby Smith, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Noun
Both cumbersome and downbeat, Final Reckoning raises the global stakes but suffers from pitting Ethan and the gang against a faceless, personality-free foe, an AI villain named the Entity introduced in the previous film.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 May 2025
The first act is genuinely atrocious, a mess of story threads revolving around an uninteresting villain in the AI Entity that feels far too downbeat and sad for this franchise.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for downbeat
Adjective
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In a time when the suffering and seemingly hopeless prospects of America’s poor are known to all who have eyes to see, the only fig leaf available to hide the obscenity of this bill is the old partisan charge of waste, fraud and abuse.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
6 July 2025
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Valentine, Texas, stamps 10,000+ love letters each year For more than three decades, the small-town Valentine Post Office — also known as the Love Station — has processed thousands of love letters from hopeless romantics around the world.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Valuation risks: The company encounters significant valuation risks because of its potentially high current valuation, which may afford little protection against downturns.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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Key measures of the economy have proven resilient in recent months, however, defying fears of sky-high inflation and a possible economic downturn.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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The cynical view would be that Trump is looking for a reason to have federal troops join ICE in rounding up undocumented immigrants that Mamdani tries to protect, and to arrest local officials who get in their way.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 July 2025
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There is a certain business logic to that; from a cynical perspective, if a £10million investment fails to live up to expectations, the financial downside for the buying club is relatively small — and in many cases, he will be sold to somewhere lower down the sport’s food chain.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
8 July 2025
Noun
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The seeming slowdown in hate speech monitoring comes as antisemitic harassment, vandalism, and assault are on the rise in the United States and globally, the Anti-Defamation League reported, with 2024 deemed a peak year for antisemitism.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 July 2025
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Even top producers should expect a slowdown in the first few months.—
Drew Gurley,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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The strategist expects a wide range of outcomes, citing bullish signals around sentiment that conflict with more pessimistic GDP forecasts.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
14 July 2025
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So while calls still outflank puts on an absolute basis, the high percentile means options traders have been much more pessimistic than usual.—
Schaeffer's Investment Research,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
Noun
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Everyone knows the main culprit for this downswing: an offensive line that sprung holes, especially on the edge.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 June 2025
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Aside from reactions to Musk’s political turn, markets have not looked kindly at Tesla for about a year, as the company’s vehicle deliveries, model development and progress on consumer cars have all been on the downswing.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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Some traders said the numbers were less severe than analysts' bleak forecasts.—
Sabrina Valle,
USA Today,
3 July 2025
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No one is as funny and as bleak in the same sentence, or maybe even the same word.—
Literary Hub
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
Noun
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Independent and third-party share has generally increased consistently from 23.4% in 2000 to 32% in 2025, with slight stagnation in growth from 2004 to 2008.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
2 July 2025
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That contrasted with views for more stagnation in Europe and further slowing in China.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
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“Downbeat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downbeat. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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