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comedown

/ˈkʌmˌdaʊn/

comedown noun: a sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown.

Noun

comedown (plural comedowns)

  1. A sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown.
    • He had two subjects of conversation, the shame and come-down of being a tramp, and the best way of getting a free meal.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXVIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC
    • I have to say it again, my Dearest Friend. What a wonderful Comedown for the Godhead! What a wonderful Comeuppance for Humankind! That’s because You, Lord God, Creator, Bellows Maker of All That Breathes, deigned to come to my hovel of a soul; once there, to fatten up the leanness of my soul with...2000, Thomas à Kempis, “[The Sacrament of the Altar: How to Prepare for It & What It Tastes Like] Frequency”, in William Griffin, transl., The Imitation of Christ: How Jesus Wants Us to Live […] A...
  2. (informal) A calm, mellow, or depressive period experienced after the (initial) high from taking drugs.

comedown meaning in Malayalam

comedown in Malayalam

loss of status, loss of face, humiliation
ഇറക്കം, പദവി നഷ്ടപ്പെടൽ, തരംതാഴൽ, മുഖം നഷ്ടപ്പെടൽ, അവമാനം, നാണക്കേട്
anticlimax, let-down, disappointment
രസാപകർഷം, ആശാഭംഗം, ഇച്ഛാഭംഗം, മതിഭ്രമവിമുക്തി, നെെരാശ്യം, മോഹഭംഗം

Examples of comedown in a sentence

  • What a wonderful Comedown for the Godhead!2000, Thomas à Kempis, “[The Sacrament of the Altar: How to Prepare for It & What It Tastes Like] Frequency”, in William Griffin, transl....
  • “So how are you getting on at UCL?” said Penny kindly, as if it must be a sorry comedown after Oxford.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

Forms of comedown

pluralcomedowns
alternative formcome-down

Origin of comedown

A deverbal from come down.

Questions about comedown

What does comedown mean?
Comedown means a sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown.
What is comedown in Malayalam?
Comedown in Malayalam is ഇറക്കം, പദവി നഷ്ടപ്പെടൽ, തരംതാഴൽ. See Comedown meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use comedown in a sentence?
What a wonderful Comedown for the Godhead!
What part of speech is comedown?
Comedown is a noun.
How do you pronounce comedown?
Comedown is pronounced /ˈkʌmˌdaʊn/ (US).
What is the plural of comedown?
The plural of comedown is comedowns.

Words near comedown in the dictionary

  1. comedonecroses
  2. comedonecrosis
  3. comedonecrotic
  4. comedones
  5. comedos
  6. comedown
  7. comedowns
  8. comedst
  9. comedy
  10. comedy and tragedy
  11. comedy breasts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comedown (page history and authors); comedown (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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