downside
- noun
- /ˈdaʊnˌsaɪd/
- I mean, there is a very clear downside to these medicines.
- downside of a strategy
- potential downside
- significant downside
Like there is never a downside to learning more skills.
- Like there is never a downside to learning more skills.
- OK, so here's the downside from my perspective.
- I mean, there is a very clear downside to these medicines.
- And like there's downsides to that too, right?
- So, you know, to me there is no downside and and trying your best.
- But what do you see as the downside to being a perfectionist?
- What is the toxic downside of being addicted to status, though?
- And on the downside, it might just be the last thing we do.
- But as I mentioned, the big downside is stability.
- I think we're going to have a there are many downsides to these drugs.
Examples
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The main downside of working from home is the lack of social interaction.
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Now the downside to the Fordham is it is so expensive.
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Yes, yes, there has to be a downside of any trade, right?
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But I think it's a major, major downside of this.
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And on the downside, it might just be the last thing we do.
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On the downside, you are now alone in the world.
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But there is a significant downside to these measures.
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But what do you see as the downside to being a perfectionist?
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But the downside is that there's a lot of work to do.
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Countries that are poor and dry may be especially vulnerable to this downside of subsidies.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
A thing that makes something less good or useful
A bad point or feature of something
Harm that a person suffers from an action or choice
A situation that makes success unlikely
Antonyms
How Negative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Downside comes from two simple words, down and side, like the 'down' side of a coin or a story compared with the 'up' side. So a downside is the 'lower' or 'negative' part of something, in other words its 'disadvantage'.