Meaning

5 senses
  1. To place lower in position.

    The stock was downgraded from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’.

    herabstufen, herunterstufen

    понижа́тьponižátʹ, пони́зитьponízitʹ

    rate lower; lower in value or esteem

  2. To reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts; to dumb down.

  3. (transitive)To disparage.

  4. To reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.

  5. To revert software back to an older version.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. He downgraded back to an older version.

  2. Until the bug is resolved, I advise you to downgrade your video card drivers.

  3. The new version of the app wasn't working very well, so I had to downgrade it.

  4. Going from Starbucks to instant coffee is a massive downgrade, if you ask me.

  5. You call that an upgrade? It's more of a downgrade, if you ask me.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
To place lower in position:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
To place lower in position:

Origin

From down- + grade.

From down- + grade.

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Forms

downgrades, downgrading, downgraded, downgraded
Base formdowngrade · to downgrade
3rd person singulardowngrades
Present participledowngrading
Past simpledowngraded
Past participledowngraded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydowngrade
he, she, itdowngrades

Past simpleLesson

all personsdowngraded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave downgraded
he, she, ithas downgraded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill downgrade

Synonyms

33 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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