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downbeat

adjective as in pessimistic

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In jazz, musicians are trained to swing eighth notes, or extend the duration of their downbeats — every other eighth note — and shorten the beats in between to create a galloping rhythm.

At a Delhi gathering after his arrest, downbeat editors spoke on the chilling effect the attacks on the media were having on newsrooms.

From Time

Some may see the decidedly not-tragic ending of The Man Who Sold His Skin as a copout, a betrayal of the story’s more downbeat undertones.

From Time

Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst for Bankrate, welcomed the news, especially after months of downbeat economic trends.

The response from Simple customers has been predictably downbeat.

Why did the Russian Ministry of Culture help to finance such a downbeat portrait of contemporary Russia?

Most affecting is his romance with a cute, downbeat girl inmate named Andrea.

Full of lively, comic storytelling and resonant in theme—youth ends; how sad—it casts a downbeat and very of-the-moment mood.

Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, the New Yorker, and more.

Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, the New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, the New Yorker, and more.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to downbeat, such as: defeatist, negative, cheerless, dejected, dispirited, and gloomy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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