Scrabble & Words with friends points
- down is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 8
- down is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 8
- down is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9
Definition of down
- English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896) (noun)
Synonyms
- john l. h. down
- understood perfectly (adjective)
Examples
- had his algebra problems down
Synonyms
- down pat
- mastered
- soft fine feathers (noun)
Synonyms
- down feather
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place (adjective)
Examples
- the down staircase
- the downward course of the stream
Synonyms
- downward
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) (noun)
Synonyms
- pile
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position (adverb)
Examples
- don't fall down
- rode the lift up and skied down
- prices plunged downward
Synonyms
- downward
- downwardly
- downwards
- lower than previously (adjective)
Examples
- prices are down
Synonyms
- depressed
- filled with melancholy and despondency (adjective)
Examples
- downcast after his defeat
- feeling discouraged and downhearted
Synonyms
- blue
- depressed
- dispirited
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- gloomy
- grim
- low
- low-spirited
- eat up completely, as with great appetite (verb)
Examples
- Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
Synonyms
- consume
- demolish
- devour
- go through
- cause to come or go down (verb)
Examples
- The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
- The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
Synonyms
- cut down
- knock down
- pull down
- push down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing (verb)
Synonyms
- fine-tune
- polish
- refine
- drink down entirely (verb)
Examples
- He downed three martinis before dinner
Synonyms
- belt down
- bolt down
- drink down
- kill
- pop
- pour down
- toss off
- shoot at and force to come down (verb)
Synonyms
- land
- shoot down
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football (noun)
Examples
- you have four downs to gain ten yards
- becoming progressively lower (adjective)
Examples
- the down trend in the real estate market
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value (adjective)
Examples
- lay face down
- the moon is down
- our team is down by a run
- down by a pawn
- the stock market is down today
- being put out by a strikeout (adjective)
Examples
- two down in the bottom of the ninth
- bring down or defeat (an opponent) (verb)
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently) (adjective)
Examples
- we can't work because the computer is down
- shut (adjective)
Examples
- the shades were down
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil (noun)
- away from a more central or a more northerly place ()
Examples
- was sent down to work at the regional office
- worked down on the farm
- came down for the wedding
- flew down to Florida
- to a lower intensity ()
Examples
- he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black
See definition of down in Merriam Webster