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Definitions for Comedown

[1] an unexpected or humiliating descent from dignity, importance, or wealth.
[2] a decline in position, status, or prosperity
[3] informal a disappointment
[4] slang a depressed or unexcited state
[5] to come to a place regarded as lower
[6] to lose status, wealth, etc (esp in the phrase to come down in the world )
[7] to reach a decision the report came down in favour of a pay increase
[8] (often foll by to) to be handed down or acquired by tradition or inheritance
[9] British to leave college or university
[10] (foll by with) to succumb (to illness or disease)
[11] (foll by on) to rebuke or criticize harshly
[12] (foll by to) to amount in essence (to) it comes down to two choices
[13] slang to lose the effects of a drug and return to a normal or more normal state
[14] Australian informal (of a river) to flow in flood

Words related to Comedown

undoing, humiliation, downfall, setback, down, blow, decline, comeuppance, descent, wreck, ruin, anticlimax, demotion, crash, collapse, dive, failure, discomfiture, fall, reverse

Words nearby Comedown

comedist, comedo, comedo nevus, comedocarcinoma, comedogenic, comedown, comedy, comedy of errors, comedy of errors, the, comedy of manners, comely

Origin of Comedown

First recorded in 1555–65; noun use of verb phrase come down

Synonyms for Comedown

anticlimax, blow, collapse, comeuppance, crash, cropper, decline, defeat, deflation, demotion, descent, disappointment, discomfiture, dive, down, downfall, failure, fall, flop, humiliation, pratfall, reverse, ruin, setback, undoing, wreck