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downmarket

downmarket adjective: designed for low-income consumers.

Adjective

downmarket (comparative more downmarket, superlative most downmarket)

  1. Designed for low-income consumers.
    • Near-synonym: low-end
    Synonyms:
    low-end
  2. Of, or relating to the less prestigious sector of the market.
    • Near-synonym: low-end
    Synonyms:
    low-end

Adverb

downmarket (comparative more downmarket, superlative most downmarket)

  1. Towards the less prestigious sector of the market.
    • Sadly, by the 1970s the arcade had gone downmarket with brash shop fronts and cheap shops, some of doubtful reputation.2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Great Western Railway Craft Skills Award: Victoria Arcade”, in RAIL, number 946, page 59
    Antonyms:
    upmarket

Verb

downmarket (third-person singular simple present downmarkets, present participle downmarketing, simple past and past participle downmarketed)

  1. (transitive) To render or become downmarket.
    • If there has been a genuine dissemination of a certain degree of readership, of artistic interest and, very notably, of musical awareness and response, there has also been a 'downmarketing', a vulgarization of culture […]2011, Ricardo Gil Soeiro, Sofia Tavares, Rethinking the Humanities: Paths and Challenges, page 37
    • As Rob Plant explained, there is a “downmarketing” process when tourists experience problems with their initial accommodation plans and settle for the next level: for example, from one-star hotel down to backpacker hostel.2000, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism, page 147

downmarket meaning in Malayalam

downmarket in Malayalam

cheap, cheap and nasty, inferior
ഗുണനിലവാരമില്ലാത്ത, വിലകുറഞ്ഞ, മോശമായ, നിലവാരം കുറഞ്ഞ, മേന്മയില്ലാത്ത, വിലകുറഞ്ഞ സാധങ്ങൾ വിൽക്കുന്ന

Synonyms of downmarket

Antonyms

Forms of downmarket

Adjective
comparativemore downmarket
superlativemost downmarket
Adverb
comparativemore downmarket
superlativemost downmarket
Verb
third-person singular presentdownmarkets
present participledownmarketing
past participledownmarketed
pastdownmarketed

Origin of downmarket

From down- + market.

Questions about downmarket

What does downmarket mean?
Downmarket means designed for low-income consumers.
What is downmarket in Malayalam?
Downmarket in Malayalam is ഗുണനിലവാരമില്ലാത്ത, വിലകുറഞ്ഞ, മോശമായ. See Downmarket meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is downmarket?
Downmarket can be an adjective, an adverb or a verb.

Words near downmarket in the dictionary

  1. downlookers
  2. downlow
  3. downlows
  4. downlying
  5. downlyings
  6. downmarket
  7. downmarketed
  8. downmarketing
  9. downmarkets
  10. downmass
  11. downmethylate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: downmarket (page history and authors); downmarket (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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