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down side

ADJECTIVE

adverse

Synonyms

STRONGEST

conflicting detrimental disadvantageous inimical injurious negative unfortunate unfriendly

WEAK

allergic to contrary down on have no use for inopportune opposed opposing opposite oppugning ornery reluctant repugnant stuffy unlucky unpropitious unwilling

Antonyms

STRONGEST

advantageous assisting beneficial friendly good helpful kind nice

WEAK

aiding auspicious favorable fortunate lucky propitious

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On the down side, however, has been residential construction and autos, according to Spence.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 17, 2025

There's a down side to "smart" devices: They can be hacked.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

On the down side for Scotland, Ireland will have looked at dropped balls, missed touch finds and a couple of iffy lineouts with interest, but mostly it was one-way traffic.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2023

Then, for the next several minutes, they knelt down side by side, deep in conversation before Vargas’ first big league playoff game.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

All well and good, but for our purposes these otherwise-valuable insights are mere subplots almost designed to carry us down side trails while blithely humming a tune about the rough equivalence of forests and trees.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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