Meaning

3 senses
  1. A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.

  2. A downhill gradient on a road or railway.

  3. A reduction in quality; a descent towards an inferior state.

    Near-synonyms: degradation, worsening, deterioration

More definitions
  • the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends

Examples

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

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

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

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

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

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Translations

2 languages

Origin

From down- + grade.

From down- + grade.

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Forms

plural: downgrades
Singulardowngrade
Pluraldowngrades

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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