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come·down
 comedown
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- pronunciation:
- kuhm
daUn
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun)
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a humiliating decline or descent from a former status.
Finishing in last place was a comedown, as the team had been first in the previous year.- antonyms:
- rise
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| definition 2: |
(informal) a disappointment or anticlimax.
Her homecoming was a comedown after all her expectations.- antonyms:
- boost
- similar words:
- letdown
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| related words: |
adversity, anticlimax, bathos |
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