bloom, peach fuzz; nap, pile, shag; wool, thatch, fur; beard, whiskers, 5 o'clock shadow, chin fur; filament, cobweb, gossamer, thistledown,
downcast, adj. dejected, disheartened, dispirited, low-spirited, downhearted, down, Inf. down in the dumps; discouraged, daunted, dismayed, distressed, disappointed, crestfallen, broken-hearted, heartsick, Inf broken up; unhappy, cheerless, glum, gloomy, under a cloud, in the doldrums, doleful, Archaic, wan; saddened, sad, blue, forlorn, melancholy, mopey, mopish, long-faced, chapfallen, unsmiling, Inf. down in the mouth; miserable, morose, heartbroken, woebegone, heavy-hearted, disconsolate, sorrowful, mournful, lachrymose, funereal; depressed, weighed down, burdened, crushed, prostrate, Inf. broken, Sl. bummed out; despondent, Psychiatry, hypochondriac or hypochondriacal, Brit, hipped, spiritless, lifeless, exanimate, enervated, weakened, weary, tired, drained.
downfall, n. 1. collapse, debacle, breakdown, break up; drop, fall, descent, crash, smash, tailspin or tail spin, nose dive; defeat, overthrow, overturn, labefaction, coup d'dtat; undoing, ruin, ruination; debasement, abasement, degradation; shame, disgrace, humiliation, mortification.
2. mistake, blunder, botch, bungle, error, Inf. slipup; transgression, dereliction, dereliction of duty, misconduct, misdeed; false step, wrong step, misstep, false move, wrong move, bad move, trip, stumble; offense, peccadillo, oversight, omission; leak, slip, lapse, lapsus; All Sl. boner, goof, dumb trick, fool mistake, screw-up, foul-up, louse-up.
3. downpour, downrush, spate, cascade, flood, deluge; cloudburst, thunderstorm, thundershower, scud, Brit. Dial, brash.
downgrade, n. 1. slope, grade, slant, pitch, inclination; descent, decline, declivity; dip, drop, fall, slip.
2. on the downgrade declining, weakening, sinking, failing, going down or downhill, sliding, slipping; falling, falling off, losing ground, going to pot or seed, going to the dogs, hitting the skids, going into a tail-spin; off, depressed, slumping, sagging.
-v. 3. demote, degrade, humble. See - demote.
4. minimize, belittle, understate, gloss over, soft-pedal, whitewash, make light of; denigrate, detract from, run down, criticize, Sl. badmouth.
downhearted, adj. sad, depressed, downcast, broken-up, atrabilious. See - downcast.
downpour, n. deluge, inundation, torrent, torrential or driving rain, pouring or drenching rain, cloudburst, Inf. cats and dogs; flood, flash flood, washout,
downright, adj. 1. complete, total, outright, out-and-out, categorical, dead, flat, unequivocal, unmitigated, unqualified, unconditional, incontestable; thorough, thoroughgoing, wholesale, all-out, Inf. flat-out; absolute, utter, profound, sheer, stark, arrant, rank; perfect, positive, consummate, Inf. regular, Inf. plumb, Brit. Inf. proper.
2. clear, manifest, distinct, palpable, evident, self-evident, conspicuous, definite, unmistakable, undeniable.
3. candid, frank, forthright, foursquare, straightforward, straight-from-the-shoulder; plain, plain-spoken, plain-speaking, explicit, unambiguous, undisguised, Inf. straight-out, Inf. flat-flooted, Inf. matter-of-fact; outspoken, free-spoken, free-speaking, free-tongued, free, unreticent, bold, unreserved, unrestrained, unconstrained, unchecked, unabashed, uninhibited, unsparing, unshrinking; blunt, bluff, brusque, brash, tactless. -adv. 4. completely, totally, categorically, dead, unequivocally, unconditionally, incontestably, Inf plumb; absolutely, utterly, profoundly, sheerly, starkly, arrantly, rankly; perfectly, positively, consummately-
