downer

See also Downer

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊnə(r)

Noun

downer (plural downers)

1. A negative drug trip.

   Normally those pills give me a boost, but last night they gave me a downer

2. A drug that has depressant qualities.
3. Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy
   • 2009, Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are

     You don't really need to know me. I'm kind of a downer.

Descendants

• Downer

Anagrams

• wonder, Wonder

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German

Adjective

downer

1. inflected form of down